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A video has surfaced on social media showing a Vancouver police officer shooting an Indigenous man with a bean bag gun — an incident which occurred in August and is the subject of an investigation into police’s use of force.
Chris Amyotte, a 42-year-old father of eight from Winnipeg who was visiting family in Vancouver, died on Aug. 22 after an interaction with Vancouver police officers on the Downtown Eastside during which he was shot with a bean bag gun.
The Ojibway man’s death has drawn calls
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