No charges for VPD officer who fatally shot armed man in Downtown Eastside hotel – BC [Video]

B.C. prosecutors have opted not to press charges against a Vancouver police officer who fatally shot a man holding a knife in a hotel on the Downtown Eastside three years ago.

The fatal confrontation took place on May 5, 2022, at the Patricia Hotel as police responded to reports of an armed man having a mental health or drug-related crisis and assaulting people.

Last year, B.C.’s civilian police watchdog, the Independent Investigation Office, submitted a report to Crown prosecutors after concluding there were reasonable grounds to believe an officer may have committed offences involving the use of force.

Global News obtained video of the fatal confrontation between a shirtless, shoeless man holding an object in one hand and three officers, one armed with a Taser, one with a beanbag shotgun and one with his service pistol.

The officers can be seen approaching a junction in the hotel hallway where they …