ASIRT concluded two RCMP officers acted reasonably in 2020 when they shot and killed a man in Blairmore who drove his vehicle at them
Two Mounties, one of them who’d just finished his shift, were investigating a man on Feb. 11, 2020, who was suspected of stealing items from the home of a conservation officer in the Crowsnest Pass.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails.
They concluded the man inside a Chevy Silverado pickup truck was the one being sought and the officers ordered him three times to exit his vehicle with his hands up. “ ran around the front of the police vehicle and began to discharge his handgun at the suspect continued to reverse in a circular pattern around the police vehicle.”
CCTV footage of the 36-second episode shows the officers with arms raised in shooting position at point-blank range of the pickup truck.
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