Police not at fault in woman’s death: IIU
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The province’s police watchdog says officers who helped restrain a woman who was then sedated by paramedics and later died were not responsible for her death.
The incident happened at a home on the 500 block of Arlington Street on Oct. 23.
The mother of a 37-year-old woman called 911 after she heard a “thump” from her daughter’s bedroom and found her on the floor, thrashing about. She found a glass drug pipe, still hot to the touch, on her daughter’s bed.
Emergency crews told the Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba the woman was growling and “banging off the walls,” and the rescue crew tried to stop her from injuring herself.
Police were called at 9:50 a.m. because the woman’s adult brother grabbed a firefighter by the shirt and was later seen outside holding what appeared to be a large piece of glass, emergency crew members told the IIU.
Two officers handcuffed the woman, who was struggling with a firefighter, to keep her from harming herself. One officer helped put a spit sock on her head because she had been spitting blood, and officers used their shins to pin the back of her legs and her buttock area.
The woman was given haloperidol and went into cardiac arrest nearly immediately. She stopped breathing about 10 to 15 seconds after she was given the sedative. The woman was taken to hospital in critical condition and was in a medically induced coma until her death Nov. 3.
The woman’s mother told emergency crews her daughter had been on kidney dialysis for the previous 10 years. The medical examiner said there was evidence of bruising and some minor cuts that did not contribute to the cause of death.
“No cause of death has yet been attributed. Toxicology results have not yet been received,” the final IIU report, released Tuesday, said.
IIU civilian director Roxanne Gagné said she’s satisfied police did not contribute to the woman’s death.
“Efforts were made to keep her safe and prevent her from continuing to hurt herself, as she was hitting her head on the floor and walls,” she said in the report.
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