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From The Toronto Star:

As many as 28 witnesses will testify at the inquest in the upcoming weeks, said Giordano, including the two officers — Const. Michael Adams and Sgt. Stuart Blower — who tried to arrest Manon and chased him a couple of hundred metres before tackling him to the ground.

An SIU investigation completed last January cleared the two officers. According to a news release issued by the SIU at the conclusion of the investigation, Manon went limp after the officers placed their weight on his upper body as he continued to struggle.

The province’s chief forensic pathologist, Dr. Pollanen, concluded that the teenager, who was face down, died of positional asphyxia. The SIU news release said during the struggle “pressure was placed on (Manon’s) chest in a manner that could have caused it to compress and interfere with his breathing, a classic indicia of death caused by positional asphyxia.”