Court blocks second appeal bid by officer convicted in handcuffed woman assault

Dalia Kafi, the victim of the assault, died of a suspected overdose in June 2021, days before the officer's sentencing.

In the years since a Calgary police officer was captured on camera throwing a handcuffed woman face-first to the ground, the legal system has slowly, imperfectly, turned its gears toward accountability. Alex Dunn's conviction for assault causing bodily harm has now survived two rounds of appeal, with courts affirming that the evidence against him was beyond dispute. Yet the woman at the center of it all, Dalia Kafi, did not live to see justice reach its present form — and the question of whether a 30-day conditional sentence truly reflects the gravity of what was done to her remains unresolved

Court blocks second appeal bid by officer convicted in handcuffed woman assault

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