Ontario's law enforcement oversight agency has ended its probe of a January incident involving Windsor police.
The incident involved a 63-year-old woman on January 30. Windsor police officers responded to a call outside a convenience store at Howard Avenue near Edinborough Street about the woman refusing to leave a taxicab. Officers asked her to leave the vehicle and bodily removed her after she still refused to get out.
According to the report from the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the woman was checked out in hospital later that day for "soft tissue injuries". However, in May, the woman reported that she had broken her back.
"As the woman did not sustain a ‘serious injury’ within the terms of the SIU mandate, this left the SIU without statutory jurisdiction to investigate," said SIU Director Joseph Martino.
The SIU has terminated the investigation and closed the file.
