Edmonton toy gun shooting justified
Posted Sep 16, 2010 8:05 am.
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Edmonton Police have been cleared of any wrongdoing for shooting and killing a woman holding a toy gun.
The government body that investigates police-involved shootings says officers had no choice but to shoot her.
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team found even though the gun was a toy, it looked very real at the time.
ASIRT’s director says police were justified in seeing the 48-year-old woman as a threat when she brandished the toy at officers and people living in her building in January.
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