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Officer who shot man carrying BB gun on Calgary train used reasonable force: ASIRT

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Police were called after a report that a homeless man got on the C-Train and sat down with a handgun on his lap before falling asleep.

The man woke up hours later and walked along the train platform with the gun in his hand.

The watchdog says the man ignored officers’ demands to drop the gun and was shot in the head and chest.

The gun was later found to be a BB gun, as the man had planned to shoot it at BB gun course at Sisika Nation .

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formal

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English

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47

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