The police officers who fatally shot a black man during a 2017 intervention at an east-end Montreal apartment won't face charges, Quebec's Crown prosecutors' office announced Friday.
Pierre Coriolan, 58, was distressed and was holding a knife and a screwdriver when six police officers were called to his apartment in June 2017.
Coriolan was taken to hospital, where he was declared dead. An analysis showed that he had a high level of an unnamed "psychotropic substance" in his bloodstream when he died. "We believe there were quite serious errors that were committed, so our civil suit continues, and it changes nothing on our side," Virginie Dufresne-Lemire said in a phone interview.
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