More details released around McIntyre Crescent search warrant

The large police presence in a residential area saw many bystanders, with some believing that shots were fired. However, Cooper said this was not true, saying this was likely flashbangs used by the Emergency Response Team to “try and prompt those inside the residence to come out peacefully.”

“It is routine for our emergency response team to try and get those people in a house to exit the house by first using call outs, trying to draw them out verbally. If that’s ineffective, we will use flashbangs as well as CS gas in order to try and get those within the home to exit the residence,” Cooper said.

For some in the area, seeing how heavy the police response was, and the equipment used, definitely raised concern, but added it wasn’t especially surprising.

“A couple people that I talked to, they did say they lived in the neighborhood and they actually ended up moving because they had seen a man on fire, because they knew people who shot arrows at people’s cats and dogs,” one bystander said.

“A neighborhood is a family place, there’s tons of families,” the bystander continued.

Cooper explained safety is always a concern for bystanders and people who live in the area when executing a search warrant, and said police always do their best to keep the community as safe as possible.

“Residences around the McIntyre address were told to stay in their homes and to get into a basement, if possible, just to ensure their safety. And that’s something that we definitely take into consideration when we’re building our plan around a search warrant execution, what kind of safety measures we’re going to have to take into account in order to ensure the safety of those in the area,” Cooper said.

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by Tommy Osborne

More details released around McIntyre Crescent search warrant

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