Numerous witnesses at an inquest into the RCMP shooting of a masked man linked to Anonymous testified that police repeatedly warned the man to drop his knife. Inquest witnesses described McIntyre's mask as "something you'd see on Facebook" and a mask from a "group of people that like to stir it up." McIntyre was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask linked to the activist group Anonymous, which later claimed him as one of their members. In a statement read out to the inquest, McIntyre's sister said her brother Jim, was a "small man with a big heart." Witnesses at the inquest into James McIntyre's death say the man in the mask refused to drop his knife.

Source: CBC News September 29, 2020 02:02 UTC