Troubled Toronto cop faces DUI charges from off-duty crash
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A troubled Toronto cop has been charged with impaired driving after a car crash in Whitby last weekend.
Matt Brewer, 39, who faces charges of impaired driving and breach of probation, was released on Monday.
The off-duty officer was arrested Sunday at the scene of the collision at a Taunton Rd. plaza after a vehicle jumped a curb and struck a parked pickup truck at 4:30 p.m.
Brewer was already facing Police Act offences for several allegations, including pepper-spraying a handcuffed prisoner in 2016 in the back of his cruiser in a case which Justice Richard Blouin called “obvious police brutality.”
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The incident was captured on the squad car’s video system.
According to the Police Act allegations, Brewer also uttered “profane, abusive or insulting language” at a senior officer, and yelled “abusive, threatening” words at a woman inside a Whitby gym before hurling her belongings against a wall and kicking over a garbage can. Brewer allegedly accused the senior cop of having sex with his wife.
According to a summary of facts submitted at that tribunal hearing, Brewer put the gun in his mouth before going outside and firing it multiple times into the air. The tribunal heard Brewer was suffering from depression, alcoholism and post-traumatic stress disorder.
He was docked five days pay last November.
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