{"id":102212,"date":"2017-05-13T03:47:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T07:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=102212"},"modified":"2017-05-13T03:47:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T07:47:26","slug":"toronto-police-e-t-f-members-shoot-bear-in-northeast-residential-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/13\/toronto-police-e-t-f-members-shoot-bear-in-northeast-residential-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police E T F members shoot bear in northeast residential area"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_102213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102213\" style=\"width: 494px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Bear-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102213\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Bear-2.jpg\" alt=\"Toronto police shot and killed a bear as it roamed through a residential area of the city late Friday night. (Photo: Jitze Couperus\/Flickr)\" width=\"494\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Bear-2.jpg 494w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Bear-2-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toronto police shot and killed a bear as it roamed through a residential area of the city late Friday night. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jitze1942\/1750394833\/\">Jitze Couperus\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Toronto police shot and killed a bear as it roamed through a residential area of the city late Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>A 42 Division spokesman said Emergency Task Force members were deployed to a neighbourhood in northeast Toronto after multiple bear sightings were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The police official said the animal, which according to unconfirmed eyewitness reports was an adult black bear, was rummaging through backyards, and at one point banged on the door of a residence.<\/p>\n<p>He said E-T-F officers shot the bear (in the Middlefield and McCowan Road area) after animal control officials advised police that they were not equipped to deal with the potentially dangerous situation.<\/p>\n<p>There were no reports of any people or pets being injured.<\/p>\n<p>Police had no immediate information about where the bear came from, its gender, or whether a post-mortem examination would be performed to try to determine if it was suffering from any abnormalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto police shot and killed a bear as it roamed through a residential area of the city late Friday night. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":102213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[1582,11079],"class_list":["post-102212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-bear","tag-toronto-police","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}