OPP officers cleared in 2023 Six Nations standoff

By Lynda Powless Editor It tool nine hours and 17 bullets fired at close range to bring a standoff that began on Halloween night 2023 with an armed Six Nations man to the end. The front door of his Chiefswood Road trailer home had been crushed by an OPP armoured vehicle. Tear gas had been fired and a police drone shot down. Three Ontario Provincial Police officers involved in the standoff and gunfire exchange with Six Nations last November were cleared Friday of any wrongdoing in a gunfire exchange with a Six Nations man who had claimed to be “cop hunting”. Ontario’s Special Investigation unit (SIU) concluded there were “no reasonable grounds” to believe the officers who had responded to a Six Nations Police assist call had committed a crime, according…

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