A man is dead and B.C.’s civilian police watchdog has deployed following an incident in Chilliwack.
BC RCMP said officers were called to Mary Street and Patten Avenue just after noon to reports of a fight inside a vehicle.
Officers arrived and took a man into custody before he went into medical distress and subsequently died, Mounties said.
Investigators erected a tent near a blue pickup truck. Video from the scene showed the truck’s doors open and its windshield smashed with a gaping hole on the passenger side.
Witness Autumn Fayant told Global News she saw officers arrive and box the truck in.
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She said she believed the truck’s occupant had kicked the windshield out from the inside.
“They took him out of the car, he was trying to get up and run kind of,” she said. “His feet were horribly bloody.”
“They couldn’t get him into handcuffs right away just because he had tucked his arms under his stomach … it took two of them to get his arms out,” she added.
More officers arrived and were eventually able to get the man into handcuffs, but when they tried to lift him off the ground he “just went fully limp,” Fayant said.
Paramedics arrived and tried to resuscitate the man, but were not successful, she said.
RCMP said the incident was not a shooting, and that there was no risk to public safety.
The Independent Investigations Office confirmed the incident was a fatality, and that it had taken conduct of the investigation.
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