Victoria police have been cleared by B.C.’s civilian police-watchdog agency of any wrongdoing in a 2022 incident that left a woman with a broken right arm from being shot with a beanbag gun.
According to the decision from chief civilian director Ron MacDonald, police responded to a Sept. 9, 2022 report that a person on the edge of Beacon Hill Park was yelling and seemed to be under the influence of drugs. Witnesses told police the woman had been sitting in the park and yelling for some time, and had been seen in the area for a few days prior, the decision said. It said an officer who approached the woman heard her talking about wanting to be killed and saw her hold a knife to her throat. She stabbed at the ground with a knife and swung a second knife as if trying to ward off attackers.
An officer approached with a shield and held the woman to the ground. He said he felt “bone-on-bone grinding” near her shoulder in the process and determined her arm had been broken.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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