Officer who shot man carrying BB gun on Calgary train used reasonable force: ASIRT

-CP-Alberta’s police watchdog says an officer was justified in shooting a man who boarded a light-rail-transit train in Calgary with a weapon that turned out to be a BB gun. Police were called in July 2021 after a report a homeless man got on the C-Train and sat down with a handgun on his lap before falling asleep. In a report released Thursday, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, or ASIRT, said the man woke up hours later and walked along the train platform with the gun in his hand. The watchdog said the man ignored officers’ demands to drop the gun and was shot in the head and chest, sustaining serious but non-life-threatening injuries. ASIRT said the weapon was later found to be a BB gun, as the man…

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