^^ the same story was updated
sounds like a rookie may have been a little too nervous because the IHIT officer in charge of the investigation simply said the victim "produced a weapon" rather than say "brandished weapon threateningly @ officers" or "attempted to attack officers" etc
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A man is recovering in hospital after being shot by a Vancouver police officer in the Downtown Eastside Sunday morning.
Cpl. Dale Carr of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) said a VPD officer shot the 47-year-old man during a routine patrol after a confrontation turned violent.
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(routine patrol leading to a violent confrontation? or a routine stop after a violent confrontation occurred? shitty reporting)
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“The man produced a weapon, which caused one of the two police officers to draw his service pistol and fire an undetermined amount of rounds at the individual,” he said.
The shooting victim, whose name has not been released, was rushed to hospital for surgery.
Emergency reports indicated violence broke out around 10 a.m. at Gore Avenue and Cordova Street.
Police taped off a block surrounding the area and a burgundy van could be seen in the middle of the intersection, surrounded by police cars. An officer at the scene would only say that “a bad guy got shot.”
In a statement, VPD said the two officers involved have 18 months and 19 years of service, respectively, with the VPD.
The shooting occurred just up the street from the Vancouver Police Department and behind the downtown community court, an area which sees heavy street drug dealing.
While few details are known, an area resident who is part of the local drug culture told a Province reporter “a Chinese drug dealer got shot in the van.”
IHIT is sometimes brought in by other police agencies to investigate officer-involved shootings.
Police in B.C. have been long criticized for investigating their own. Two recent commissions of public inquiry, the Davies Commission in 2009 and the Braidwood Inquiry in 2010, recommended that police stop investigating themselves.
Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/news/IHIT...#ixzz1JCy6Zi00
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