- Three southern Alberta police officers have been cleared of misconduct after a restaurant worker in a “Star Wars’’ storm-trooper costume and carrying a plastic gun ended up with a bloody nose when she was forced to the ground. The Lethbridge officers had already been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing for the arrest in May 2020, but were being investigated by the Medicine Hat Police Service for professional misconduct under Alberta’s Police Act. Three officers responded and saw the person was carrying “what appeared from a distance” to be a black gun, police added. Mehdizadeh said he reviewed the 250-page report from the Medicine Hat investigators and concluded no officers were guilty of misconduct. “We do acknowledge the stress and confusion endured by the young woman in the costume, through no fault of her own,” he said.

Source: thestar July 14, 2021 21:33 UTC