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I'm surprised they waited so long to nail him... seriously:
British Columbia’s civilian police watchdog has been deployed after RCMP on Vancouver Island shot a man who allegedly crashed into police vehicles with a piece of industrial equipment.
Robert Martin, who lives near Evans Park in Duncan, B.C., said he was in his back yard Tuesday evening when he heard loud noises and police sirens.
He then saw someone driving a skid-steer, a tracked piece of equipment with a loading bucket on the front, down the alley.
“He actually went over one of the cop cars, crushed the car,” before driving out to the main road, Martin said.
“They tried to PIT maneuver him with four or five cop cars and he kept taking the bucket of the skid steer and pushing them out of the way. We kept hearing screeches from the tires and he just kept going,” he added.
“The cops tried to do everything to stop the guy, and in the end we heard five gunshots.”
In a media release, the RCMP said officers from the North Cowichan/Duncan detachment were called around 9:15 p.m. Tuesday about an impaired man driving a track loader skid-steer down a residential street.
Mounties said they tried to get the the driver to stop, but that the loader collided with police vehicles.
“During the interaction that followed, one officer discharged their weapon striking the driver,” RCMP said in the release.
“Emergency Health Services were called and the man was transported to hospital with serious injuries.”
globalnews.ca
B.C. RCMP shoot man after he crashes into vehicles with skid-steer loader
British Columbia’s civilian police watchdog has been deployed after RCMP on Vancouver Island shot a man who allegedly crashed into police vehicles with a piece of industrial equipment.
Robert Martin, who lives near Evans Park in Duncan, B.C., said he was in his back yard Tuesday evening when he heard loud noises and police sirens.
He then saw someone driving a skid-steer, a tracked piece of equipment with a loading bucket on the front, down the alley.
“He actually went over one of the cop cars, crushed the car,” before driving out to the main road, Martin said.
“They tried to PIT maneuver him with four or five cop cars and he kept taking the bucket of the skid steer and pushing them out of the way. We kept hearing screeches from the tires and he just kept going,” he added.
“The cops tried to do everything to stop the guy, and in the end we heard five gunshots.”
In a media release, the RCMP said officers from the North Cowichan/Duncan detachment were called around 9:15 p.m. Tuesday about an impaired man driving a track loader skid-steer down a residential street.
Mounties said they tried to get the the driver to stop, but that the loader collided with police vehicles.
“During the interaction that followed, one officer discharged their weapon striking the driver,” RCMP said in the release.
“Emergency Health Services were called and the man was transported to hospital with serious injuries.”
B.C. RCMP shoot man after he crashes into vehicles with skid-steer loader - BC | Globalnews.ca
One witness said they saw the man drive "over one of the cop cars" and push multiple other police vehicles out of the way before he was shot.
globalnews.ca
