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October 3 Toronto Derek George Grant […]
When
1979-10-03
Description
October 3 Toronto Derek George Grant died of a seizure while in police custody after being entrapped and arrested in the washroom of the Parkside Tavern, 530 Yonge Street. Two police officers were hidden in a storage room next to the washroom, and had been observing the washroom through a ventilation grate. Grant and three other men were seen having sex. The policemen burst in and arrested the men, but in the ensuing melee two of the men escaped. Grant was placed in a headlock and later choked during a panic attack at police headquarters, and could not be revived. The man arrested with Grant was not charged, and was released. The Toronto Police Morality Bureau later revealed that twenty-eight men had been arrested in the Parkside's washroom during 1979 alone. A coroner's inquest later ruled that Grant's death had been accidental. (See also February 25, 1980.)
