Police found heroin and fentanyl, but they didn t find any guns.
Ten years earlier, a Black man also in his 20s died after a police no-knock drug raid in a Toronto highrise. In that case, an officer shot Eric Osawe and was charged with murder, but threelevels of court concurred that it was an accident.
In 2016, tactical officers in London, Ont., shot dead 35-year-old Sam Maloney at his family home in front of his wife and kids while dynamically executing a search warrant for computer tampering charges.
Maloney was known to distrust authorities and shot the first officer he saw entering his house with a crossbow before running down a hallway holding a hatchet overhead.
Botched no-knock raids prompt calls to limit police tactic
The Fifth Estate27 days ago
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Police forces across Canada are conducting hundreds of no-knock raids each year to execute search warrants.2:01
Police forces across Canada are conducting hundreds of no-knock raids each year to execute search warrants despite growing concern about the trampling of charter rights, an investigation by CBC s
The Fifth Estate has found.
These raids, also called dynamic entries, involve heavily armed police barging into a home unannounced. Stun grenades that explode at ear-splitting decibels are often used.
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