A video showing four officers piling onto a Toronto man in a cellblock assault — which had been kept secret — is now public.

When Justice Donna Hackett found four Toronto police officers “lied, exaggerated and colluded” to cover up the January 2012 assault against Curtis Young, she said two videos were crucial to sifting out the truth.

“If there had not been a video to contradict all of their notes, the consistency in their evidence could have been accepted at trial, Mr. Young convicted, and justice totally frustrated,” the judge wrote in her March 17 decision. (All charges against Young were later dismissed.)

The Star brought an application before Hackett following her decision, seeking access to the videos, which show both assaults and had been played as exhibits in court.

Last month, lawyers for the Toronto Police Service, the individual officers and the Special Investigations Unit all opposed their videos. They argued this could impede ongoing investigations.

Star lawyer Iris Fischer argued the public has a right to view the videos and that the Supreme Court has ruled that access to court proceedings includes access to videos.

In a turnaround Monday, all parties agreed to their release. In one of the videos, two of the officers’ physical identities are concealed under a court order. According to lawyer Gary Clewley, those officers are currently engaged in undercover duties.

The SIU is no longer probing the incident.

The first video released shows Young being brought before superior officers at a Scarborough police station to be processed. Officers had found Young drunk in a bus shelter. He was arrested for public intoxication and possessing a baggie of marijuana. (Those charges were stayed by the judge in March.)

After arriving at the police station, Young complained on video several times about his swollen eye, saying the officers had punched him. The judge found his complaints were ignored.

When Const. Christopher Miller and Const. Joshua James stand Young up before the officers, he is asked several questions. As he continues to complain, Miller can be seen moving his hand behind Young’s back, where Young’s hands are cuffed.

“I’m going to pull a f***-ery right now,” Young says on the video. “You can squeeze as much as you want, you can hurt me as much as you want.”

At the trial, Miller testified he bent Young’s wrist back, pulled his arm up and squeezed. After Miller returns his hand to his side, Young continues to complain.

“We’re on camera. Squeeze, I dare you.”

This all happens in front of four other officers, which Hackett wrote was “troubling.”

“Unfortunately, no one present reacted to this assault despite Mr. Young’s complaint at the time and their duties. In essence, they are all parties to this abuse of power,” the judge said. “I find PC Miller’s use of force was a deliberate attempt to stop Mr. Young from complaining about his eye to his superior.”

The judge, after saying neither Young’s nor the officers’ evidence was credible, never found whether he had been assaulted during his arrest. There is no video of the actual arrest.

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Later Young is brought into a holding cell in shackles. Miller, James, Const. Adrian Piccolo and Const. Christopher Moorcroft are all inside the small room when Moorcroft grabs Young’s head and pulls it down twice. All the officers then converge on Young, standing on the cellblock bench and leaning into him as he lies motionless underneath them.

After several minutes the officers back away. Young is left lying on the bench, trousers ajar and hands splayed up over his head. Paramedics later arrive to assess Young.

Hackett accepted that Young continued to be verbally abusive towards the officers in the cell but said that what happened next amounted to misconduct.

“I find that PC Moorcroft inappropriately reacted physically to this behaviour, followed by the other officers, who then all assaulted and further injured Curtis Young,” Hackett wrote.

Following Young’s interaction with police, his mother complained to the Toronto police about her son’s facial injuries, which included a swollen eye and cuts to his head.

The professional standards unit carried out an internal investigation, interviewing the officers and reviewing the videos. A report returned to Young’s mother in June 2012, which was obtained by the Star, concluded the officers did not use excessive force and allegations of misconduct were unsubstantiated.

After viewing the booking video, the investigating officer concluded the arresting officers were “polite and professional” with Young.

As for the cell video the report states: “No excessive use of force is seen in this video.”

After Hackett released her written decision in March, professional standards officers were in court to monitor the case.

“We are undertaking an investigation within the service,” the force’s lawyer Sharon Wilmot said Monday.