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LPS officers assaulted with bear spray

(Source: London Police Service) (Source: London Police Service)
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A London man is facing a long list of charges after three police officers were sprayed with bear spray.

Around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, police responded to a home on Downing Crescent where two men were inside fighting and one assaulted the other.

According to police, when officers got there, they started talking to a suspect who got out a can of bear spray and sprayed them.

Additional police officers attended the area and a suspect was arrested.

A 37-year-old man has been charged with assault, assault by choking, three counts of assault a public officer with a weapon resist arrest.

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