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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\u2008Provincial 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 \u201ccop hunting\u201d. Ontario\u2019s Special Investigation unit (SIU) concluded there were \u201cno reasonable grounds\u201d to believe the officers who had responded to a Six Nations Police assist call had committed a crime, according… <\/p>\n

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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\u2008Provincial 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 \u201ccop hunting\u201d. Ontario\u2019s Special Investigation unit (SIU) concluded there were \u201cno reasonable grounds\u201d to believe the officers who had responded to a Six Nations Police assist call had committed a crime, according... <\/p>\n

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