Elderly Black couple suing Durham police alleging wrongful arrest, assault

A pair of seniors from the Durham region are taking legal action after an incident outside an Ajax hospital saw the two tackled to the ground by police and hospital staff. The lawyer for Livingston and Pamelia Jeffers released a video on Monday of an incident from 2018. Pamelia had been brought to Lakeridge Ajax […]

Witness video captures violent takedown of elderly Black couple at GTA hospital

An elderly Black couple are alleging that Durham Regional Police and staff at an Ajax, Ont., hospital assaulted and abused them during a fall 2018 confrontation, and then tried to suppress video of the incident via threats of arrest and legal action. Livingston Jeffers accompanied his wife, Pamelia, to the emergency room at Lakeridge Health […]