 A man shot five times by police while he was in a booze-fuelled rage said he is disgusted charges against the officer won't be laid. Tony Fehr, 24, said he was drunk and out-of-control after fighting with his wife and had just cut off his ring finger with a samurai sword when he was shot by a police officer on April 15.
"Toody! He chopped off his finger!"
"Shoot, Muldoon! Shoot!" |
"I don't think it's right someone can shoot someone five times and get away with it," he said. "I was drunk and I had kind of lost control but they could have handled it totally differently." | I suppose they could have beat you silly, but there was the little matter of that bloody sword you kept threatening them with ... |
| "I wuz just funnin' with 'em! That sword wudn't loaded!" |
Following an investigation by the Edmonton Crown Prosecutor's office, it was determined yesterday no charges would be laid against the officer or Fehr. Calgary police refused comment.
| Albertans have common sense. |
| They seem kind of taciturn, though. I probably coulda come up with a few comments for the delectation of the press. |
At the time of the shooting, police Chief Jack Beaton said an officer, who sources identified as Kim Brochu, ordered Fehr to drop the sword and step back outside a home on 47 Ave. N.W.
| "Drop the sword and come out withcher hands up!" |
When he allegedly refused,
| "You'll never take me alive, coppers!" |
Brochu shot Fehr twice.
[BANG!] "Ow!"
[BANG!] "Ow!" |
Beaton said two more cops arrived, but the man still refused to put the bloody weapon down, prompting Brochu to fire two more shots.
[BANG!] "Ow!"
[BANG!] "Ow!" |
A fifth shot was fired when Fehr continued to advance, said Beaton at the time.
| "Look out, Toody!" [BANG!] |
Fehr said the incident was a blur until he was pepper sprayed.
| "Then I sobered up pretty quick." |
"After I cut off my finger I don't remember much until I was pepper-sprayed and that totally woke me up."
| I was shit-faced drunk, is the reason. |
Fehr was shot in the arm, hip, stomach and groin.
| "My arm! You shot me in the arm!" |
"It's been very hard to walk and to work and find an income."
| "People just don't wanna hire a drunk with a missing finger who looks like a Swiss cheese. An' it's all their fault!" |
Fehr said officers also refused to return his finger, claiming they needed it as evidence.
| cold, that is. saved the taxpayers a lot of money for the surgery, tho. |
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