A police officer who was found not guilty of manslaughter in the 2016 death of an Ottawa man told a coroner’s inquest his goal was to “distract” Abdirahman Abdi with punches during the arrest, and he “did his best” to monitor him afterwards. The inquest into Abdi’s death marks the first time Ottawa police Const.

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