HALIFAX – Nova Scotia’s Serious Incident Response Team says an RCMP officer used reasonable force when he removed a woman from a police vehicle only to have her fall and break her arm.
The independent agency issued a report saying the officer recorded the event on audiotape, which helped investigators conclude he had done nothing wrong.
The report says that on Aug. 10, 2014, the officer was dispatched to Meat Cove in northern Cape Breton to investigate a complaint about someone pointing a firearm.
The officer says when he arrested an intoxicated 57-year-old woman, she got into the back of his police vehicle before he could search her for weapons.
When the woman refused to get out, the officer pulled her out and she fell awkwardly, breaking her upper left arm.
The woman complained that the officer pulled her without warning, but the agency says the tape confirmed the officer’s version of events, including the fact that the woman failed to respond to several requests to leave the vehicle.
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