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    7 months ago

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    Soleiman Faqiri’s deadly restraint by Ontario jail guards in 2016 has been deemed a homicide — words his family has waited to hear for nearly seven years since he died shackled, pepper sprayed and covered with a spit hood face down on a cell floor.

    The verdict from the jury at the coroner’s inquest carries no legal consequence, however it represents a major milestone in the family’s fight for accountability in the 30-year-old’s death.

    The Ontario Public Service Employees Union, which represents correctional and health-care staff in jails, said Friday that Faqiri’s death should not be deemed a homicide but rather accidental, saying it was not intentional and could not have been foreseen.

    Jurors also heard about a fractured relationship with the nearby hospital, where inmates in crisis were sometimes taken and sent right back after receiving medication, as well as lack of mental health beds.

    And it revealed that multiple “well-intentioned people effectively shouted from a rooftop that Soleiman need help,” as inquest counsel Prabhu Rajan put it — to no avail.

    In the end, five members of the public, after two days of deliberation, reached the same conclusion and declared Soleiman’s death a homicide," one of the family’s lawyers, Edward Marrocco told CBC News.


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