Officer used reasonable force when he shot machete-wielding suspect: ASIRT

A provincial agency has found a Calgary police officer used reasonable force in the shooting of a man who was high on drugs and threatened him and his partner with a machete. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) investigated the incident on Aug. 25, 2019. In the final report, released Friday, ASIRT said police responded to reports of a suspicious person who was making threatening statements in a southeast Calgary neighbourhood. ASIRT says the situation escalated when the suspect ap