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IrelandLilley defends Toronto police handling of home-invasion investigation
The Toronto Sun commentary has drawn about 64,000 views in seven hours, but its argument differs sharply from its headline.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 145,274 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (10,916).
LILLEY UNLEASHED: T.O. top cop should lose job over botched home invasion investigation
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- 1:43Lilley argues that police acted correctly under the law in this case, despite his previous criticisms of their leadership.
- 2:45He says privacy restrictions and missing evidence initially prevented officers from detaining the wounded hospital patient.
- 4:00Demkiw says investigators initially had no information that an assailant had been shot.
- 5:27Lilley describes a warrant to seize the bullet, forensic testing and the subsequent Canada-wide arrest warrant.
- 6:37He concludes that arrest without reasonable cause could jeopardize a conviction.
The Toronto Sun upload's title calls for the police chief to lose his job. Brian Lilley's argument inside takes a different direction: he says officers lacked the evidence needed to detain a wounded man who later became a suspect in a violent home invasion.
The video is titled "LILLEY UNLEASHED: T.O. top cop should lose job over botched home invasion investigation". Yet Lilley says plainly: "...the police did not botch this the way that so many people think."
His commentary examines an armed attack in Toronto's Bayview and Lawrence area in which residents were shot and beaten. A man subsequently arrived at St. Joseph's Health Centre with a bullet wound. According to Lilley's account, hospital privacy restrictions and the absence of evidence connecting him to the attack initially prevented police from detaining him.
Police Chief Myron Demkiw appears in press-conference clips, saying investigators initially had no information suggesting an assailant had been shot. Lilley explains that officers later obtained a warrant to seize the bullet, conducted forensic testing and issued a Canada-wide arrest warrant.
The upload has already drawn far more views than the channel's usual full first day, with hundreds of comments. Viewers question what police can investigate when someone arrives at a hospital with a gunshot wound. Lilley's answer centers on the distinction between suspicion and grounds for arrest: "A hunch doesn't stand up in court."
A large teaching hospital in western Toronto, near the Lake Ontario shore.
More on Wikipedia ›A Canadian police officer who has led the Toronto Police Service as chief since December 2022.
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- Channel
- Toronto Sun
- Subscribers
- 289,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,141,980
- Channel views, pace per day
- 91,494 (on a normal day: 179,867)
- Video published
- November 2, 2026
- Video views so far
- 64,230 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 145,274
The numbers
The video passed the channel's usual full-day audience within its first seven hours. Its comment count also exceeded the usual first-day total several times over.
