Newsstand: July 9, 2015

In the news: Dummies in the HOV lane (no, but really), Dwayne Casey donates suits to the unemployed, and the police's Special Investigations Unit probes a fatal police shooting.

By Kelli Korducki • Illustration by Matthew Daley

Yesterday morning, surveillance footage caught a person driving in the Gardiner East HOV lane with two clothed and baseball-capped dummies. During the Pan Am Games, the HOV lane is reserved for accredited vehicles and cars carrying three or more people-but the law doesn’t technically say that those people have to be sentient. Either way, the driver was handed an $85 ticket.

Toronto Raptors Coach Dwayne Casey donated roughly a dozen of his suits to the Canadian Suit Drive, which pairs gifted suits with unemployed men. Casey, who is a year into a three-year $11 million contract with the Raptors, came from a humble Kentucky upbringing that included odd jobs in a coal mine and tobacco fields. “No question (I haven’t forgotten),” he said.

The Special Investigations Unit, a civilian body that looks into instances of death or serious injury where police were involved, is examining a police shooting that took place on Sunday morning, leaving 45-year-old father of five, Andrew Loku, dead. Loku was a resident of a building leased by the Canadian Mental Health Association to provide affordable housing for people with mental illness; the Star reports that the shooting has renewed concerns that Toronto police are inadequately equipped to interact with people experiencing mental health challenges.