'They pointed their guns at me right away. They shouted one command and immediately I felt a shot.'
“They pointed their guns at me right away. They shouted one command and immediately I felt a shot and right after I just heard multiple shots going off,” Devon Fowlin told reporters at a news conference organized by his lawyer Wednesday.“I feared for my life immediately after I got shot in the arm.”
Fowlin said he has been experiencing homelessness ever since he was laid off from his job in Montreal. He moved to Toronto in the summer of 2021 and admits he did have a knife on him at the time of the incident, but that he uses it to cook and that he hadn’t threatened anyone. “It’s not regular police procedure for what they’ve done. They normally do talk to people first to try and de-escalate the situation,” Fowlin said.
“We have never seen it happen like that in Canada, however, this is a prime opportunity for the police, the SIU, and all government agencies, to demonstrate their willingness to correct this problem.”
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