The province’s police watchdog has cleared two Toronto police officers of any wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old during a traffic stop in North York earlier this year.

The Special Investigations Unit says around 11 p.m. on April 20, police pulled over a red Infiniti on Sheppard Avenue West near Bathurst Street because the vehicle was missing a front license plate and its windows were heavily tinted.

When officers detected the smell of cannabis in the vehicle, they asked the six occupants of the car to step out. After three of the occupants were escorted out of the car, the SIU says the teen who was in the back seat reached to his left with his right hand before swinging his right hand in the direction of the open door and began shooting at police.

One officer fired “multi

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