Police and Hilda Street

abdi: Witnesses said Abdirahman Abdi got scared when police arrived and ran to his home – just three blocks north to an apartment building on 55 Hilda Street, where he had been living since arriving in Ottawa from Somalia in 2009, according to Metro News. Witness 'shocked' by Ottawa Police arrest Man critically injured in police altercation, has died: SIUNeighbours – many of them friends and family – then watched from their balconies as Abdi was forcefully arrested. On Sunday, police received a 911 call at 9:30 a.m. from the Bridgehead coffee shop on Fairmont Avenue and Wellington Street West, where a man was reportedly causing a disturbance and touching a female patron. Witness Shukri Samater said people were yelling as Abdi was handcuffed and hit by officers on the stone steps just outside the building entrance. He was bleeding from the back of his head. That was the most disturbing part of it all, what happened after he was handcuffed, Samater said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.