A trial started Tuesday in Sarnia linked to police officers firing shots at an SUV as it allegedly sped towards officers on Walpole Island during a shelter-in-place weapons call earlier this year.

Joseph Kennedy, 53, from Chippewas of the Thames First Nation near London, was arrested March 2 on Walpole Island as tactical officers swarmed the small community near Wallaceburg. He was charged with two counts of assaulting police, one an OPP officer and the other a First Nations officer, with a weapon, and single counts of dangerous driving and prohibited driving.

In custody since then, Kennedy pleaded not guilty from the prisoner’s box to all the charges as a four-day trial got underway. It started with the testimony of two OPP forensic identification officers, Mark Andreychuk and Cory Be

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