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B.C. Police Won't Be Charged In Fatal Shooting Of Masked Man Outside Protest

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 16 Nov, 2016 12:30 PM
    SURREY, B.C. — RCMP officers in Dawson Creek, B.C., who were involved in a fatal confrontation with a man wearing a mask have been cleared of any wrongdoing.
     
    The Independent Investigations Office says it doesn't believe any officer committed an offence and the case will not be sent on to Crown counsel to consider charges.
     
    The shooting happened in July 2015 when police were called to a hotel where a disguised man refused to drop a knife.
     
    The IIO report issued Wednesday says several people saw him lunging towards Mounties with the switchblade and that the officers acted appropriately in their use of force.   
     
     
    Forty-eight-year-old James McIntyre was killed while wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, the most well-known member of a plot to blow up Britain's parliament in 1605, and the mask that is a symbol for the online hackers' group Anonymous.
     
    McIntyre's death set off a series of threats by the group to escalate online attacks across Canada, and it claimed responsibility for temporarily disrupting the RCMP's main website the day after the shooting.

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