An Ontario police watchdog said two Vancouver police officers didn’t commit a criminal offence when they shot less-lethal rounds at Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa earlier this year.
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said no serious injuries were reported after two protesters–a 36-year-old man and a 41-year-old man–were shot by the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) officers during an operation to push protesters south of Bank Street in downtown Ottawa on Feb. 19, 2022.
Police officers with the VPD were in Ottawa to assist with policing the Freedom Convoy protests.
SIU Director Joseph Martino said he had “no reasonable grounds to believe that two Vancouver Police Department officers committed a criminal offence” when they fired at the two protesters, according to a statement released on June 20….