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Pieters said the Crown reviewed the application and came to the “reasonable” conclusion to drop the charges.

He added his client is now considering filing a civil lawsuit against the Toronto police.

“I’m still anxious to cross-examine those officers as to why they’d have a finger in my client’s anus, why he would be handcuffed and forced against a wall when all he was doing was allegedly smoking a cigarette in front of a building,” Pieters said.

The teen was arrested outside the apartment building at 275 Bleecker St. on June 5, 2015, according to the SIU investigation. Police determined he was “intoxicated,” but when they moved to arrest him, he tried to flee.

He was taken down during a “brief but strenuous struggle.” Tony Loparco, the SIU director, determined officers used “reasonable” force.

“I am unable on the weight of the reliable evidence to reasonably conclude that the subject officer used anything other than reasonably necessary force when, confronted by a belligerent youth intent on physically resisting his arrest, the subject officer delivered a single open-hand strike to the youth’s face and assisted in wrestling him into submission,” Loparco said.

It’s almost as if the SIU is the judge, jury and prosecution in these cases.

Pieters said the investigation was “fundamentally flawed.”

“The SIU has an unreasonably high standard for charging police officers,” he said. “It’s almost as if the SIU is the judge, jury and prosecution in these cases. I have very little confidence in that body.”