Ontario's police watchdog has cleared two Peel Regional Police officers of wrongdoing in a shooting outside Toronto's Pearson airport in April that left a 30-year-old man dead.

A report from the Special Investigations Unit says the officers fired their weapons to "protect themselves and others" after a man in mental distress pulled out an air pistol.

The SIU says officers were called to the departures drop-off area outside Terminal 1 at about 6:38 a.m. on April 24 by airport security, after a woman asked for help because her brother was reportedly in distress due to a combination of mental illness and drug consumption.

The report says the woman reported that her brother was refusing to exit the vehicle to get on a flight to the Yukon, where he had previously agreed to attend a treatment

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