When a group of police officers and firefighters burst into the Pandora Avenue apartment where Lisa Rauch had holed up, Thomas Faulkner from Victoria’s fire department led the way with a fire hose just behind a police officer with a shield.
“I could see maybe a couple of feet in front of me,” he said “It was just dark.”
Faulkner’s description of events was heard in sworn testimony at a public hearing into the use of police force in 2019 that resulted in Rauch’s death.
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