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Police watchdog absolves Calgary cops of killing a Black man in distress

Latjor Tuel was behaving erratically and allegedly committed a random assault, but ASIRT said calling a mental health worker to the scene was out of the question.

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Jeremy Appel
Jun 15, 2024
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Calgary police shot and killed Latjor Tuel on Feb. 19, 2022. (GoFundMe)

Alberta’s police watchdog has released its findings into the Calgary Police Service’s February 2022 killing of Lajtor Tuel, a South Sudanese refugee in mental distress who had allegedly assaulted someone with a metal walking stick.

In a June 14 report, the Alberta Serious Incident Res…

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