Albert Johnson Muhammed

B R U T A L I T Y C A N A D A Brutality Canada Police Brutality O Canada Johnson shot while kneeling or crouching, pathologist says By Christie Blatchford Toronto Star, October 28, 1980 Albert Johnson was probably crouching or kneeling at the foot of a stairway in his home when he was shot by Metro police last year, a County Court jury has been told. Dr. John Hillsdon-Smith, director of forensic pathology for Ontario, yesterday testified that the bullet that fatally injured Johnson entered his abdomen at a 45 degree angle and travelled downward. Becuase of the angle of entry and the path of the bullet, he said, the gun must have been higher than Johnson. Aorta damage Hillsdon-Smith, who performed the autopsy on the body of the 35-year-old Jamaican immigrant, was testifying at the manslaughter trial of two Metro policemen charged in Johnson's death. Constables William Inglis, 36, and Walter Cargnelli, 23, have pleaded not guilty. Johnson died in hospital about six hours after the Aug. 26, 1979, shooting. His aorta - the body's main artery - had been damaged by the bullet, causing hemorrhaging in his abdomen. Though Hillsdon-Smith wasn't asked directly about what might have happened during the shooting, he was given three hypothetical scenarios by Clive Bynoe, Lawyer for Inglis, and asked to comment on them. He said the first scenario -...