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David Weir, one of the officers who arrested Abdirahman Abdi during a violent altercation in 2016, is no longer working for the city's police force, he told an inquest into Abdi's death on Wednesday.Former constable David Weir, the first officer to confront Abdirahman Abdi on July 24, 2016, testified Wednesday during a coroner's inquest into Abdi's death.
Weir is the fourth witness at a coroner's inquest examining the circumstances of Abdi's death. Abdi was a Somali-Canadian who suffered from mental health issues. "I have an arrest for sexual assault, for assault, for causing a disturbance, for mischief. You want me to keep going? I've got enough," Weir told the virtual inquest, counting things off with his hand.
The judge found Montsion not guilty of manslaughter in Abdi's death, calling the arrest a "dynamic interaction requiring quick decisions on the fly." When asked by one of the inquest lawyers if he received any mental health details from dispatchers about Abdi, Weir replied:
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