VICTORIA — B.C.'s Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner has called a public hearing into the death of a woman who was struck by plastic bullets fired by Victoria police on Christmas Day 2019.
A statement from the office says a Police Act investigation had identified two allegations of misconduct stemming from an officer's use of force and a lack of documentation of the incident.
But the notice of public hearing says the family of the 43-year-old woman made a request for the hearing, saying they saw inconsistencies in the information given to them from police and B.C.'s police watchdog. MacDonald's decision says the woman who died was intoxicated and threatened residents at a housing facility before a fire broke out in a suite where she was barricaded and officers had no choice but to use force to end the situation.
Police had begun moving into the suite when an officer fired three"projectiles" from an ARWEN"less-lethal launcher," striking the woman in the head, it says.
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