Police were busy this weekend....
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...lice-1.2846098
Surely killing him was a last resort. 2x4s should be banned.Vancouver police attend to a 51-year-old man seconds after he was shot Saturday afternoon. The two-by-four lies he was using to threaten police lies near the man's body. (Ron Dunnett/YouTube)
A 51-year-old man shot by Vancouver police has died of his injuries.
Police responded to a call about_a distraught man standing in the intersection of East 41st Avenue and Knight Street waving a wooden two-by-four around and shouting loudly at around 5 p.m. PT, police said.
Passersby survey the scene of a police-involved shooting last night in East Vancouver. (CBC)
When officers arrived at the scene, police say they were confronted by the man who refused to comply with their instructions.
In an emailed statement, Const. Brian Montague says police used non-lethal bean bag rounds in an attempt to disarm the man, "but he was eventually shot."