B.C. police watchdog deployed to Vancouver Island after incident in Duncan

DUNCAN, B.C. — British Columbia’s police watchdog has been deployed to Vancouver Island in relation to an incident captured on video and shared on social media that appears to show police shoot a man.

The Independent Investigations Office says it will release further information about an incident in Duncan, north of Victoria, later today.

The seven-second video shows the moments before an officer opens fire on a man standing behind the open door of a black SUV that appears to have rammed an RCMP vehicle backwards into a ditch.

The video shows the police SUV marked “NC,” indicating it belonged to the North Cowichan detachment, in a ditch next to a parking lot where several other police vehicles are parked.