OTTAWA (Sun Media) - An Ottawa woman with a mental illness is seeking more than $32,500 in damages from police who, she says, should have taken her to hospital instead of arresting and jailing her for more than 11 hours. Court heard officers treated the call as a domestic dispute after finding an agitated Green and hearing from her partner, Raymond Feldman, that she had thrown a coffee mug at him. Cutler argued there were signs Green was in distress, including that Green told them she was under the care of a doctor for post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety disorder and that police would have been aware of a mental health call to Green’s address a week earlier. Police said they arrested Green for assault after she followed Feldman around the house berating him and trying to kick him. Cutler also said that once police arrested her and allowed Feldman to leave, there was no reason to hold her for so long at the police station and release her late at night to a dark parking lot. Stuart Huxley, counsel for the Ottawa Police Services Board, argued police had reasonable and probable grounds to arrest Green. read more
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