“All of a sudden, they (police) were on him,” Kelly-Ann said. “There were five of them on him.”

He was handcuffed, put in the back of a cruiser, and taken to 22 Division.

Kelly-Ann said she was shocked when she found out the cruiser had driven away with her husband and their car was to be towed. She said she was told rudely by an officer that she would be left to find her own way home.

“He said it’s not an industrial area, or a highway, there’s public transit, you can take a taxi or you can walk,” she said.

She believes from his responses that police would have left her alone with her two kids on the side of the road if the tow truck had arrived before her relatives came to pick her up. As it turned out, her relatives arrived first to pick her up, but her children were still in the car when it was being hooked up to the tow truck.

“He (an officer) kept threatening to arrest me because I wouldn’t keep quiet,” she said. “I think, had I not been pregnant, he would have arrested me.”

Meanwhile, after speaking to the sergeant at the police station, Hanniford was charged with refusing to provide a breath sample, which the couple say he did not refuse, and was released within 30 minutes.

He went straight to Brampton Civic Hospital, where he had a blood sample taken, and he said the results showed he had no alcohol in his system.

Also, x-rays revealed his wrist was broken, according to Hanniford.

“I don’t know how it happened, or at what point,” he said of the injury.

Hanniford has not yet filed a formal complaint with police. He was set to consult with a lawyer today (Wednesday).

Meanwhile, Peel Regional Police say they are looking into the allegations.

“Professional Standards has been made aware of the information and is currently looking into the matter,” said Staff Sergeant Dan Richardson in an email.

Richardson said Peel police “remain committed to being a caring and transparent organization.

“Whenever allegations such as these are brought to our attention by way of a complaint an internal investigation is launched. Community trust is important to us and we will continue to work towards maintaining the trust that the community has in Peel Regional Police.”

The incident has left the Hanniford family feeling angry and scared. With Kelly-Ann due for a C-section delivery on Aug. 30, they are also in a bind because Hanniford has had his driver’s licence suspended and car impounded for 90 days.

“I’ve never been charged... this is fairly new to me,” Hanniford said. “I’ve only seen this stuff on TV. It got me scared. My son is angry and screaming.”

Hanniford said it felt like he was back in the 1970s or 1980s, when, “as a black man, you can’t drive a tinted car.”

“There’s no reason to pull me over. I wasn’t speeding, I wasn’t doing anything,” he says. “I don’t know why I was singled out. I think the police officer made a poor judgment.”

Kelly-Ann agrees, saying it was poor judgment on the part of the police and that the whole situation was completely unnecessary.

“This is not fair,” she says. “We didn’t do anything. This was so unnecessary.”

She said when it was clear her husband had not been drinking— “there was no alcohol to be smelled”— the young family should have been sent on their way.

“I’m not going to let this go,” she vowed.