Officers not charged in 2018 shooting death of Nicholas Gibbs
Posted December 15, 2021 3:56 pm.
No charges will be laid against Montreal police officers in connection with the August 2018 shooting death of Nicholas Gibbs, a 23-year-old Black man in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
Quebec crown prosecutors say the evidence produced by the province’s police watchdog – the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes – did not indicate a criminal offence was committed.
Police say they were called to the scene to break up a fight at the corner of Montclair Avenue and Boulevard de Maisonneuve.
During that intervention, one of the two men involved allegedly approached an officer with a knife.
Officers say they then used a stun gun on the man “without success,” and then fatally shot him. The man was later identified as Gibbs.
The Gibbs family filed a $1-million lawsuit against the City of Montreal in October 2018, arguing police used excessive and disproportionate force against him.
That lawsuit has been waiting to go ahead and it’s unclear what will happen with it now.
Gibbs was a father of three.
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