Edmonton truck attack suspect had encrypted device cops couldn’t crack: ex-chief
Edmonton’s former police chief says a man charged in a truck attack in the city last year had an encrypted device police couldn’t crack.
Rod Knecht was at an international counter-terrorism gathering in Melbourne and told Australian newspaper the Sydney Morning Herald that encryption laws should be changed to allow police to hold terrorists to account.
Knecht referred to an attack in September 2017 in which an Edmonton police officer was hit with a car and stabbed with a knife outside a football game.
Later that night, a speeding cube van hit and injured four pedestrians as it raced through the city’s downtown with police in pursuit.