No Grounds to Charge Officers in Death of Regis Korchinski Paquet: SIU

A horse drawn carriage carrying a white coffin was part of a public memorial held to honour Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a woman who fell to her death from a balcony while police were in her apartment in Toronto on July 25, 2020. A new report from Ontario's police watchdog found no evidence of police wrongdoing or racism in the incident. Carlos Osorio/The Canadian Press

TORONTO—Regis Korchinski-Paquet fell to her death while trying to sidestep onto a neighbour’s balcony, said a report released Wednesday by Ontario’s police watchdog, which concludes there are no grounds to charge officers who were in her home at the time.

The lengthy report from the Special Investigations Unit notes that Korchinski-Paquet’s death sparked “important conversations’‘ about the ways in which police interact with Black and Indigenous people, but says there was no evidence of police wrongdoing or ”overt’' racism in the incident itself.