Day two of the public hearing into a police officer’s use of force in the 2019 death of 43-year-old Lisa Rauch included witness testimony and surveillance footage that showed a situation ongoing from a drug-fuelled disruption to a chaotic, smoke-filled scene full of police and firefighters.
This evidence presented a portrait of a Christmas afternoon in which drug and alcohol use were spiralling in and out of a Pandora Avenue apartment, with those involved becoming more and more out of control as day progressed.