When Majd Darwich realized his 19-year-old son Abdullah, who has autism and is non-verbal, had left their Mississauga home wearing only shorts last week, horror set in.
He says he immediately got in his car to go searching, but he only had to drive a few houses away before he came across what he described as a large crime scene.
Police tape surrounded his street in Mississauga, with multiple officers in the vicinity. In the centre of it all was his son; shirtless, handcuffed, his face bloodied.
"I saw his face, it was full of blood, I tried to see what was going on but the officers were saying, 'Don't touch him, stay away from him,'" Darwich recalled.
"I said, 'This is my son, he's autistic, I need to see if he's okay.'"
But he wasn't okay. Peel police officers ended up subduing Abdullah with a Taser, leaving him with physical injuries and psychological impacts that are still weighing on his family.
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November 9, 2022
