B.C. police watchdog finds officers' use of force 'reasonable in this instance'
The province's police watchdog says the severing of a person's fingertip during an arrest in Surrey last summer was an"extremely unfortunate" injury, but not the fault of officers.
According to the report, Surrey RCMP and Surrey Police officers were responding to a 9-1-1 call from a driver who was concerned for his safety after colliding with parked vehicles when the injury occurred. The driver had called police"to say that he did not know where he was, and that there were a bunch of 'drunk people' around his vehicle asking him for money and threatening him," Hentzen writes.
In checking one bystander's licence, the officers found an outstanding warrant related to an immigration matter, the report states. Shortly after reporting that the male was in custody, however, the officers called for urgent police backup. The witness"said that 'all three were pushing against the cop car and then he was taken to the ground.'"
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