No charges for suspect arm injury: IIU
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This article was published 14/07/2023 (843 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The province’s police watchdog has concluded a Winnipeg officer used reasonable force when a suspect in an armed robbery suffered a broken elbow while being handcuffed.
The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba, in a report released Friday following the conclusion of court matters against the suspect, said there are no reasonable grounds to charge an officer with any offence during the May 5, 2022, incident.
WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES Now-retired Civilian Director Zane Tessler Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba wrote a report concluding a Winnipeg officer used reasonable force on an armed robbery suspect.
In the report, written by since-retired IIU civilian director Zane Tessler, when police arrived at Pembina Highway and Bishop Grandin Boulevard (now Abinojii Mikanah), they found the suspect in an assault and robbery armed with a rusty railway spike (about 12 centimetres long) in one hand and spinning a rock on a string in the other.
When officers ordered the suspect to drop the weapons, he did. However, when officers tried to handcuff him, the suspect “turtled his arms and was verbally non-compliant while resisting.”
During this time, one of the officers felt a “pop” and called an ambulance.
Tessler said he was satisfied the actions were “reasonable and necessary” to detain the suspect.
