A civilian report calls for a police and city apology after a “day of chaos” that led to mass arrests and cops pepper-spraying protesters. Five months after a bombshell report laid the blame for Aug 18, 2021’s shambolic shelter siege at the feet of Halifax Regional Police and the HRM, the oversight board that’s supposed to police the former on behalf of the latter seems to want nothing to do with it. On Monday, Feb 3, Halifax’s Board of Police Commissioners heard an update on the HRM’s response to the Halifax Independent Civilian Review, a 116-page debriefing of what went wrong on a “day of chaos” where police and HRM staff cleared out four encampment sites for unhoused residents across the city…