Two TTC officers caught on a YouTube video punching two men at Union Station have been cleared of any wrongdoing by the Toronto Police Service professional standards branch.

“The police concluded the actions of the TTC officers on the 29th of January this year were lawful and justified,” TTC spokesman Brad Ross said Monday.

The two officers, who were assigned to desk duties pending the outcome of the police and an internal TTC investigation, have returned to their regular jobs, he said.

TTC CEO Andy Byford was informed by police on Thursday that there would be no charges in connection with the brawl that surfaced on social media at the end of March.

The video called into question the behaviour and authority of transit officers, and the TTC has since voluntarily strengthened oversight of its enforcement team.

The video shows a crowd gathering at Union Station as one officer punches a man who is kneeling on the floor with his head facing down. Another officer is shown repeatedly punching a man standing against a wall. The two men engaged in the fracas, Jamie Gillman and Russell Gillman, were charged with assault. It wasn’t immediately clear Monday what the status of those charges was.

At the time of the incident, both the TTC personnel were transit enforcement officers. But one has since been sworn in as a special constable, while the other is still awaiting that designation.

The TTC has 43 special constables and five officers still waiting for that designation, which gives them the power to make an arrest on reasonable suspicion.

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