Edmonton police officers have been cleared of any wrongdoing in the fall 2023 death of a man who stopped breathing while handcuffed and face down on his stomach on a southwest Edmonton street.

Alberta’s police watchdog, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT), has determined all officers were acting lawfully when placing Mazin Zaim into custody in the early hours of Sept. 20, 2023.

Police were called to reports of Zaim acting erratically and swinging an ice chipper and a metal bar outside – at the ground and at a passing vehicle – on Shaske Crescent around 12:45 a.m.

Background: • Family of Edmonton man who died in police custody speaks out, says he didn’t have to die • ASIRT investigating circumstance around man’s death while in EPS custody

That “erratic behaviour” is t

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