Pubdate: Fri, 29 Oct 2004
Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2004, Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://www.canoe.com/NewsStand/TorontoSun/home.html
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457
Author: Sam Pazzano, Courts Bureau
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http://www.mapinc.org/racial.htm (Racial 
Issues)

POLICE ARRESTS OF BLACK MEN RIPPED

JUDGES HAVE been sharply critical recently of police conduct during 
searches and arrests of young black men. Last week, the Crown attorney 
decided to stay and withdraw drug dealing charges against admitted drug 
dealer Sheldon Jackson, 28, who was pulled over in his new 750 BMW in 2001 
on St. Clair Ave. W. by Det. Glenn Asselin.

Asselin is the same officer named in the Kevin Khan case, considered the 
first "Driving While Black" case ruling in Canada.

Khan, a real estate broker, was acquitted last month of a drug-trafficking 
charge. Justice Anne Molloy said Asselin and his partner "fabricated 
significant aspects of their evidence" when they pulled the 28-year-old 
over on Marlee Ave. on Oct. 22, 2001.

Earlier this month, a judge who acquitted a veteran Toronto cop of charges 
of assaulting a hearing-impaired black man branded the officer's testimony 
as "illogical, convoluted and bizarre."

Justice Paul Robertson said he would have found Const. Syed Ali Moosvi 
guilty of assault except the complainant's evidence was also lacking in 
credibility. 
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