No charges warranted in Lake St. Martin incident: IIU
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No charges will be laid against an RCMP officer after a man arrested in March was found to have multiple facial fractures.
The incident happened in Lake St. Martin First Nation on March 21. Gypsumville RCMP went there to arrest a man wanted on a warrant for domestic violence and found a vehicle in a ditch and a man fleeing on foot, Mounties told the province’s police watchdog. He ran into a home, where police used a Taser on him
“Following due consideration of all the circumstances, the civilian director will not be authorizing charges,” the Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba said in a news release Tuesday.
The IIU report on the incident has not yet been released because charges against the man arrested remain before the court.