Winnipeg Transit safety officers assaulted on Main Street: police
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Winnipeg Transit safety officers were assaulted on Main Street on Monday afternoon.
The safety officers, who were on the 300 block of Main Street, called for Winnipeg Police Service patrol officers at about 4:45 p.m.
Police found the safety team holding an “erratic” man in custody and arrested him. Police learned that the safety team had been called to get the man off a bus near Main Street and Graham Avenue, but once they got him off the bus, he walked into traffic, said WPS.
The safety officers approached him again, but he then hit them and tried to bite them, according to WPS, before the officers got him into custody. Neither were badly hurt.
Tatipsa Anikeka Fontaine, 29, was charged with two counts of assault peace officer and on a warrant for failing to attend court. He was detained.
The safety team began patrolling some bus routes in February, after a 2022 election pledge by Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham to create the program to address concerns over violence on buses.