The Ontario Special Investigations Unit has decided there are no reasonable grounds to charge a Peel Regional Police officer with a criminal offence in connection with shooting his gun at a 36-year-old man in Mississauga in June.
The round missed its target and struck a civilian vehicle.
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On June 24, the SIU says two plainclothes police officers stopped on Highway 403 with the intention of aiding a motorist who had stopped.
However, the driver came at one of the officers while swinging a hammer. The officer fired a single shot, missing his target.
The full SIU report can be read online.
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