WARMINGTON: Boxing great takes on cop in bizarre Brampton showdown

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What would knock a person to the canvas faster — a punch from a professional boxer, or electricity from a cop’s taser?

We came close to finding out.

This grudge match between a Peel cop and a well-known boxer went 12 rounds.

This heavyweight battle was not in the ring, but in a Brampton parking lot. It was a verbal slugfest that has since gone viral on TikTok. It all went down in Brampton on July 29 in a parking lot at Sandalwood Pkwy. and Conestoga Dr.

You be the judge to score who won and lost. No one landed the knockout punch. But it was an entertaining match, broadcast on social media for the world to decide.

It all started when two Peel officers were responding to complaints about people reportedly drinking in the area. A man sitting in a nearby car was doing some filming and commentary and decided to start a conversion with the Peel copper.

Can you box?

Turns out the guy engaging the officer was professional boxer Gregory “Killer” Miller, while the cop was Const. Garito, who is believed to have about five years on the job.

“Can you box?” said Miller in a video he posted to his TikTok and Facebook accounts.

“Huh?” said a perplexed Garito.

Miller: ”I have two boxing gloves in the car.”

Garito: “You have what?”

Miller: “Two boxing gloves in the car.”

Has it ever been a good idea to say something like this to a cop? The answer is no, but Miller kept going.

“Would you like to put them on?” and “do three rounds with me?”

The officer was concise: “No.”

He then asked an appropriate question of his own: “Have you had anything to drink today?”

Miller: “No, I don’t drink.”

Noticing that Miller’s eyes were “a little red,” the officer and a female partner moved forward with a command to Miller to blow into a device that measures impairment — something he was not pleased about.

“I don’t subscribe to that,” he said.

The officer then told Miller that, if he doesn’t comply, “I will arrest you.”

“For what?” Miller asked.

“For refusing to blow into the device,” Garito replied.

Miller had his own reply, saying, “I know the law. You can’t do that.”

50,000 volts from a taser punch

Garito then countered with, “yes, I can and then we may get into a boxing match.”

Miller said he can “take out the gloves” from the car, to which Garito said “you could take the gloves out, I’ll take the taser out, 50,000 volts of electricity.”

Ouch!

Even Miller seemed to know that was an uppercut that landed.

“Is that the trick?” he said.

Garito was making it clear he was going to insist his command would be complied with.

“I’m not boxing anyone,” said the Peel copper, reminding “you roll down your window and you ask me if I wanted to box you … that sounds like something somebody intoxicated would do.”

Miller disagreed, saying that he said that “because I’m a boxer” and “I’m a fighter. You could look in my car and you will see the boxing gloves.”

Garito said while that’s all well in good, it does not mean someone is not potentially drunk or impaired.

In the end, Miller wasn’t either. And no boxing gloves or tasers were deployed in this bizarre interaction.

“The individual complied with the lawful demand and provided a breath sample,” said Peel Sgt. Tyler Bell-Morena. “The results satisfied the officers that he was not under the influence of alcohol and was safe to operate the vehicle. This ended the interaction which lasted approximately seven minutes.”

That’s almost three rounds in boxing terms.

The fight is over but the discussion and commentary is just getting started. On his social media accounts, Miller defended his boxing challenge.

“I can ask the cop anything. The cop works for me. The cop is a puppet servant, and they work for me. My tax money pays him. This isn’t the 1800s where you get poured by white people — them days are done. Slavery done a long time.”

Miller also accused the officer of not being “pleasant” and asked if he was new the force. This wasn’t a racial incident in any way, or one about age or experience. This came about because a man in a car offered to box a cop.

“I thought (the officer) had confidence, articulated what he was doing, had no back down,” said former Toronto cop and media commentator Ross Mclean, adding he “will be fine in his career.”

Unlike the claim from Miller, the video shows that Garito and his partner were pleasant, mature, reasonable, and respectful. And clear and concise.

In the end, they were just doing their jobs, and they did their jobs. They got a pro fighter to submit to their commands. And he didn’t get in any major trouble — or ever use his fists.

Cops did their jobs

Both Peel Deputy Chief Marc Andrews and Peel Regional Police Association president Adrian Woolley agree their people were “professional” and perfectly within legal bounds to ask for a breath sample considering the circumstances.

That said, Miller’s an interesting character who technically didn’t directly say he wanted to fight a cop. He politely asked if the cop would like to spar with him. Risky stuff, but good for gaining clicks on TikTok. In the videos, “Killer” Miller even admitted in his interaction he was going to make them famous on social media.

Now they are all famous. What to do next?

Well, how about they all agree to a rematch and appear either with gloves up or gloves down at the next cop fight night for charity?

Get the boxing gloves out of the car and leave the taser in the holster!

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