{"id":16518,"date":"2025-02-14T12:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T12:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/toronto-police-chats-undermined-testimony-but-it-was-whistleblower-who-got-fired-toronto\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T12:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T12:50:19","slug":"toronto-police-chats-undermined-testimony-but-it-was-whistleblower-who-got-fired-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/toronto-police-chats-undermined-testimony-but-it-was-whistleblower-who-got-fired-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police chats undermined testimony. But it was whistleblower who got fired &#8211; Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Former Toronto Police Service officer Firouzeh Zarabi-Majd said she found out about the unofficial 51 Division group chat \u201caccidentally\u201d after being told about it by a colleague.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>What she saw included a message \u201ctalking about my vagina,\u201d she said, among other disturbing conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Zarabi-Majd would go on to be fired for insubordination after posting the material on social media along with profanity-laced criticisms of the force.<\/p>\n<p>But fellow officers involved in the conversations have not been publicly disciplined, even after two of them had their remarks dissected to undermine courtroom testimony in unrelated cases, one of which collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was so heartbreaking,\u201d Zarabi-Majd said. \u201cHaving seen that stuff and reporting it, I thought that the police service was gonna actually do something and deal with these, but of course they didn\u2019t and I became the target.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Zarabi-Majd posted Division 51 group chats on social media under an account called Dirty Shades of Blue in October 2019, and was dismissed in May 2023. She is appealing and has outstanding proceedings before Ontario\u2019s Human Rights Tribunal.<\/p>\n<p>There has been other fallout.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of accused sex trafficker Kevin Barreau, his lawyer cited remarks about Zarabi-Majd\u2019s body to support a claim of racism against Det. Const. Chris Hoeller.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Barreau claimed Hoeller used a racial epithet during his 2017 arrest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h3>Get breaking National news<\/h3>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hoeller admitted writing about Zarabi-Majd\u2019s body during Barreau\u2019s<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>trial that began in 2021, telling the\u00a0Ontario\u00a0court of justice it was \u201ccompletely inappropriate,\u201d and \u201chighly disrespectful,\u201d but a \u201cone-time thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Toronto<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI find his reluctance to acknowledge the racist overtones of that text to be disturbing,\u201d Justice Russell Stuart Silverstein wrote in a May 2023 ruling, saying it increased the likelihood Hoeller used the epithet.<\/p>\n<p>However, Silverstein rejected Barreau\u2019s efforts to stay the case.<\/p>\n<p>Barreau was convicted but his lawyer, Chris Rudnicki, said the group chat evidence showed a \u201cstriking\u201d culture among police.<\/p>\n<p>He said the material was \u201cdeeply relevant\u201d to Barreau\u2019s case because he had been \u201ctrying to establish that this guy (Hoeller) is a racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rudnicki said Zarabi-Majd\u2019s exposure of the group chat was done at \u201cextreme\u201d risk. But such chats are mostly kept secret, he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cEvery defence lawyer knows that the police will routinely use their personal cellphones to talk to each other in order to avoid having their communications produced to the defence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two years before the Barreau case, a different Toronto case involving two 20-year-olds accused of possessing drugs and a gun at the downtown Moss Park homeless encampment fell apart when key evidence was tossed out by the judge.<\/p>\n<section id=\"content-dynamic-trending-stories\" class=\"l-inlineStories l-inlineStories--tile u-hide-tablet-landscape\" aria-label=\"Dynamic trending stories section\">\n<p>\n\t\t<span class=\"l-inlineStories__title c-heading c-heading--strikethrough\">Trending Now<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11017200\/mini-ritz-crackers-recall-canada-cfia\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ritz.png?w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" title=\"Mini Ritz crackers are being pulled off shelves in Canada. 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How the process works<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p>It had been compromised, in part, by cross-examination of Toronto Police Service Const. Ryan Kotzer, who was grilled over his 51 Division chat activity.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshots shared with The Canadian Press show a profile under Kotzer\u2019s name criticizing judges as \u201cleftist\u201d and \u201cmorons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is when the politicians need to step up and take our muzzles off and allow us to (mess) these animals up,\u201d he says, using a profanity.<\/p>\n<p>In a discussion about shootings, he says: \u201cI\u2019d put my mortgage on the fact that a black man is involved in 90 (per cent.)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ruling on the Moss Park evidence by Judge Feroza Bhabha said Kotzer told the court he had \u201clearned from the past, educated himself, and his comments on the group chat no longer reflect the person he is today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neither Hoeller nor Kotzer faced public disciplinary action over their remarks, but Hoeller was taken off the service\u2019s human trafficking unit, the judge in Barreau\u2019s case wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Toronto Police Service spokeswoman Nadine Ramadan said the force \u201ccannot comment on specific disciplinary matters involving our officers unless those matters result in an appearance at the disciplinary tribunal or criminal charges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neither Hoeller nor Kotzer could be reached for comment. The Toronto Police Service and the Toronto Police Association both declined to help The Canadian Press contact them, and Kotzer\u2019s former lawyer, Gary Clewley, also declined to do so.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script defer src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;appId=318812448281278&#038;version=v3.3\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11019120\/toronto-police-chats\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Toronto Police Service officer Firouzeh Zarabi-Majd said she found out about the unofficial 51 Division group chat \u201caccidentally\u201d after being told about it by a colleague. What she saw included a message \u201ctalking about my vagina,\u201d she said, among other disturbing conversations. 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