He was speeding through roads and stop signs at 177 km/h with his abducted son in his pickup truck while pointing a gun to his own head.
We apologize, but this video has failed to load.One is that a dispatcher broadcasted there was a “child in the car” and that a “negotiator is on standby.”The OPP, who were aware a mom had complained to police the a boy’s father had abducted the child, placed a spike belt on the road to try to stop the speeding vehicle from putting the public in danger.
“These officers had seconds to react to a situation that almost killed another officer, they had seconds to deal with a man armed with a gun,” said Salo, who is an award-winning freelance journalist. After almost two years, the SIU announced the charges that further traumatized the already traumatized officers involved and shook the entire policing community, which will be following future proceedings closely as a barometer of what police are expected to do, and not do, in such a set of dire circumstances.
“It’s easy to sit here two years later and say this and that, but the truth is these officers only had seconds to react to this situation as you can hear in the recording,” said Salo.Article content
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