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A Toronto police officer has been cleared of wrongdoing in the shooting death of a Port Dover gunsmith last fall.

In a report on the incident Thursday, Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit said Rodger Kotanko grabbed a pistol and pointed it at two Toronto police officers as they searched his shop on Port Ryerse Road on Nov. 3. SIU director Joseph Martino said the officer who shot Kotanko acted in self-defence.

Based on the SIU investigation into Kotanko’s death, Martino said there “are no reasonable grounds to believe that a Toronto Police Service officer committed a criminal offence.”

Melinda Gates trashed her ex-husband Bill for his questionable friendship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and revealed that he continued to meet with him despite her having ‘nightmares’ about him.

In her first interview since her divorce from the billionaire last year, Melinda told CBS Mornings that she insisted on meeting Epstein back in 2011 because she wanted to see ‘who this man was’.

‘I did not like that he had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein. I made that clear to him. I also met Jeffrey Epstein exactly one time. I wanted to see who this man was and I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door.

I have no words for this level of child abuse… horrifying. pic.twitter.com/QuhxgUWbRP

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) March 2, 2022

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas is pushing back against critics who say she doesn’t belong in the pool with other women, declaring “I’m not a man.”

The 22-year-old University of Pennsylvania swimmer making waves amid a national debate on whether transgender athletes should be allowed to compete against biological females said there’s no middle ground in the controversy as she sees it.

“The very simple answer is that I’m not a man,” she told Sports Illustrated in an exclusive interview posted online Thursday.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been accused in a lawsuit of hurling obscenities at a city lawyer who tried to defy her wishes by allowing Italian-Americans to display a removed statue of Christopher Columbus at a parade.

Former Chicago Park District deputy general counsel George Smyrniotis filed the lawsuit on Tuesday against the city and Lightfoot, alleging she defamed him with her remarks in a meeting last year.

This trend is spreading. TikTok is cancer. Keep your kids away from it pic.twitter.com/rY9x4YFULv

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) March 2, 2022

Chicago severs ties with sister city Moscow

Chicago is suspending its relationship with one of its sister cities, Moscow, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Tuesday that the city would be cutting ties with Russia’s capital to demonstrate the people of the city “strongly condemn” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

An abandoned ship carrying an estimated $401m (£295m) worth of cars, including Porsche, Audi, Bentley and Lamborghini models, has sunk nearly two weeks after a fire broke out onboard.

The Felicity Ace sank on Tuesday about 400 kilometers (250 miles) off Portugal’s Azores Islands as it was being towed, MOL Ship Management in Singapore said in a statement. A salvage team had put out the fire which had burned for days, fueled by lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles onboard.