B.C. RCMP officers won’t face charges in arrest that left man seriously injured [Video]

Two B.C. RCMP officers won’t face criminal charges for their use for force that left a man who had been arrested for public intoxication with a concussion, a torn shoulder and a chunk of his hair missing – but they could face professional discipline.

This week, the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. issued its report on the November 2021 arrest on Vancouver Island, declining to forward a report to Crown while referring the matter to the RCMP which will determine if the officers violated the force’s code of conduct.

The man who was injured, referred to as the affected person or “the AP” in the IIO report, was initially stopped by police because he was seen with an open beer near the scene of a single-vehicle crash in Shawnigan Lake.

Although police determined the AP was not the driver of the vehicle, “the officers believed that the AP was too intoxicated to allow him to continue walking down the middle of …