More than 3 years later, Montreal family of police-shooting victim still waiting for Crown's decision
CBC
The family of police-shooting victim Nicholas Gibbs filed a $1-million lawsuit against the City of Montreal three years ago, arguing that police used excessive and disproportionate force against him.
But that lawsuit has been stuck in neutral, as the family waits for the Crown to finish reviewing a report by Quebec's police watchdog, the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI).
The family is tired of waiting, says their lawyer, Virginie Dufresne-Lemire.
"We don't have yet the decision and it's been 872 days," she told CBC News.
Gibbs, 23, was fatally shot by SPVM police in Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood, back in the summer of 2018.
The BEI issued a news release with preliminary information on the night of the shooting, saying police were called to the scene to break up a fight at the corner of Montclair Avenue and de Maisonneuve Boulevard.
During that intervention, one of the two men involved in the scuffle approached an officer with a knife. Police officers used a stun gun on the man "without success." Police then fatally shot the man, later identified as Gibbs.
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