Commission lawyerpresented a summary Monday of how the killer acquired four decommissioned Ford Taurus police vehicles in 2019 from the federal government’s online auction site
A public inquiry heard Monday that many people knew about a replica patrol car owned by the gunman in Nova Scotia’s mass shooting, but they didn’t tell police about his suspicious activities.
She also told the inquiry that there’s no indication anyone who saw the fully marked car or photographs of it before the rampage reported it to the police. The Criminal Code says it’s against the law to falsely represent oneself to be a police officer or to use police gear to impersonate a police officer, but is silent on the issue of whether someone can simply own a marked vehicle for a personal display.
Liberatore said during cross-examination by Tara Miller – a lawyer representing victims’ family members – that the killer told him he intended to use the replica cruiser for parades, and as a result he didn’t report the matter to the RCMP. Miller asked whether Liberatore was ever given any training on how to recognize and report suspicious behaviour, and he replied he had not.
Charles Banfield, Lisa Banfield’s brother, told the RCMP on April 19, 2020, he’d asked the killer what he was doing with a replica car. James Banfield, another of Banfield’s brothers, said the killer told him he planned to put a heart on the vehicle and make it a memorial for fallen officers.
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