Ontario’s police watchdog says it is investigating after Toronto police officers fired a gun and less-lethal weapons during an arrest that sent a man to hospital with a serious injury.
The Special Investigations Unit said officers were called to an apartment on the city’s west side Saturday morning after a man allegedly stabbed someone and threatened others with a stapler.
The SIU says when officers arrived on scene, the 56-year-old suspect approached them with a staple gun.
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The watchdog says an officer fired a sock shot from a less-lethal weapon, which struck the man, and other officers deployed numerous “conducted energy” weapons.
The SIU says an officer also fired a gun after the suspect barricaded himself inside his apartment, but the man was not hit.
Investigators say police eventually entered the unit and shot the man again with low-lethality, energy-assisted weapons after negotiations yielded no results.
The SIU says no officers were injured in the incident and is asking anyone with information to come forward.
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