Mayor John Tory says it will be up to Chief Mark Saunders to determine if three Toronto police officers should face any internal discipline after being acquitted of sexual assaulting a colleague.“I’m not going to pre-judge what the police chief does,” Tory said Thursday. “Understand my role as the mayor and or as a member of the police services board is to oversee what the chief does, the chief is in charge of the police service, he will reach whatever decision he chooses to reach.”On Thursday, a judge acquitted three 51 Division constables, Leslie Nyznik, Sameer Kara and Joshua Cabero, accused of sexually assaulting a parking enforcement officer in a downtown Toronto hotel room on Jan. 17, 2015. The complainant’s identity is protected under a publication ban.“It is simply not safe to convict,” Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy wrote in her 45-page ruling.Molloy, however, said she did not “necessarily believe” Nyznik, the only one of the three officers who testified and “freely” acknowledged “many things that were not to his credit.”For example, “the amount of drinking that was going on; the extent of the free food and drinks and privileged treatment provided by the bars they attended; his familiarity with the Brass Rail and its staff,” the name of the Yonge St. strip bar the officers attended before going to the hotel.Nor was Molloy impressed with the ease with which Nyznik (and the others) “lied to the stripper at the Brass Rail about being a pornographic movie crew,” the judge wrote in her ruling. She also upbraided him for showing “shocking insensitivity and cruelty …of finishing with the complainant and then asking the two men if they should still call the “hooker” to come over.”Tory said Thursday that what he “expects from all of our public servants, and I include in that first and foremost ...
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