A Toronto police officer, who is diabetic, has profusely apologized for threatening to Taser two handcuffed suspects, an act he blames on a severe hypoglycemic episode.“I wanted to take responsibility right from the beginning,” Christopher Hominuk, 38, testified Tuesday at his sentencing hearing in the Ontario Court of Justice. He pleaded guilty last winter to one count of threatening bodily harm.
Defence lawyer Peter Brauti is asking Justice Hugh Fraser to accept the opinion of Dr. Anne Kenshole, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, who also testified Tuesday.
She concluded Hominuk's behaviour on May 24, 2010 was “very compatible” with a longtime type 1 diabetes patient, such as Hominuk, experiencing dangerously low blood sugar levels.
“His actions on May 24 did seem out of keeping with what I would assume this man's behaviour would normally be.”
Kenshole reviewed his medical records and the blood sugar level readings produced by the blood glucose monitor he was wearing that day. She also interviewed Hominuk about his history with diabetes, which he has had since he was 15. She also watched videotaped footage recorded on cameras that captured what happened inside the police cruisers.
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Source: Toronto Star
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