Toronto police chief Myron Demkiw has walked back the controversial comment that he’d been “hoping for a different outcome” in the trial of Umar Zameer, the man acquitted over the weekend of deliberately police Const. Jeffrey Northrup in the line of duty.
But he stopped short of criticizing his predecessor, former police chief James Ramer, who in the hours after the July 2, 2021, fatal collision dubbed Zameer’s actions in the plainclothes officer’s death “intentional” and “deliberate” — a position that was eventually rejected by Zameer’s jury and criticized by the judges who oversaw his case.
