Ontario's Special Investigations Unit has cleared a Toronto police officer of wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a 40-year-old man in crisis in an east end parking lot in May.
In a report released on Thursday, SIU director Joseph Martino says there are no grounds to proceed with charges against the police officer who shot the man twice in the abdomen.
"He needed help. He needed someone to get him to a hospital and that's where he's supposed to be," his sister Lesley Geisler previously said.The SIU said the man confronted the officer with a knife and the officer drew his firearm. The man refused to drop the knife when asked to do so repeatedly, and advanced on the officer, the police watchdog said.
"The weapon the complainant was wielding was capable of inflicting grievous bodily harm and death, and the complainant seemed intent on using it against the [subject official] and had neared to within striking distance of the officer at the time of the shooting."According to the SIU, an off-duty paramedic flagged down a police officer after seeing a man in distress in the parking lot. The man was believed to be holding an edged weapon.
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