In the days after a confrontation between two Niagara police officers erupted into gunfire, the officer who pulled the trigger told Ontario’s police watchdog he knew the man he shot as a “bully” with a “violent past,” a court in Hamilton was told Wednesday.
Det.-Sgt. Shane Donovan was continuing his testimony in the Ontario Court of Justice in Hamilton, a day after the start of the judge-alone trial of Const. Nathan Parker.
Parker was charged with several assault counts despite the fact Donovan fired at least 10 rounds and the constable was shot multiple times in 2018.
On Wednesday, Donovan was cross-examined by defence lawyer Joseph Markson, who
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