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Canada: Mentally ill man crawling when killed by Vancouver officer's shot
- Published_at:2012-05-29
- Category:Nonprofits & Activism
- Channel:UfoScandinavia
- tags: Canada (Country), Vancouver (City/Town/Village), probe, police, killing, kill, scandal, police brutality, murder, 2012, Cops, cop, Crime
- description: New video of a fatal shooting by a Vancouver police officer nearly five years ago is provoking calls to reopen the investigation into whether it was justified. The video shows the last moments of Paul Boyd, a 39-year-old mentally ill animator, who died after an altercation with Vancouver police in August 2007. Boyd can be seen on his hands and knees on Granville Street, moving toward Const. Lee Chipperfield, who is pointing a gun. The view is briefly obscured when Boyd crawls in front of a car, and Chipperfield fires the last of nine shots at him. The fatal bullet struck Boyd in the head. The disturbing video is the only one known to be recorded of the incident. It was captured by Andreas Bergen, a tourist from Winnipeg, who was visiting Vancouver with friends. At the time, Bergen didn't think his shaky, dimly lit video was valuable because there were dozens of witnesses closer to the scene than he was. But in March of this year, B.C.'s police complaint commissioner issued a report, concluding there wasn't "clear, convincing and cogent evidence ... that Chipperfield used unnecessary force or excessive force during his incident." Bergen said he read an account of the decision and became concerned. "I kind of felt guilty," Bergen told CBC News, "[Because] I have the tape and I think the tape will help to resolve some of that confusion. I don't think it was necessary to shoot Paul. Especially not eight times. And especially not in the head." Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/05/28/bc-police-shooting-video-paul-boyd-killed-while-crawling.html Namaste :-) Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=ufoscandinavia FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
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