IIU investigating another RCMP-related death

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Another person has died after interacting with Manitoba RCMP — the fourth such death this month.

Two males were arrested after a traffic stop on Highway 6 in the Rural Municipality of St. Laurent at about 2:40 p.m. Friday. The stop was unrelated to what the males were arrested for, RCMP told the province’s police watchdog that day.

Shortly after the arrests, police noted one of the males — an adult — was suffering from a medical emergency and contacted emergency crews. The male was unresponsive and did not have a pulse, so police gave him CPR. Emergency crews continued giving the man CPR for about 45 minutes before pronouncing him dead, the Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba said in a news release Monday.

Officers from four Manitoba RCMP detachments and one in Saskatchewan were sent to find a missing man in Duck Mountain Provincial Park, near the Manitoba border, on Jan. 19. Officers found him in the bush, and police later told the IIU he was handcuffed “for officer safety” because “there was an indication the male may have a weapon.”

It was later determined that the man no longer had a pulse, and he died in hospital. Last week, a spokesperson for the Manitoba government said they could not state whether the man was found in Saskatchewan or this province.

A woman died in Ashern’s hospital after being arrested in Vogar on Jan. 15. Cory Wiebe, a 33-year-old father of seven, was fatally shot by a Manitoba RCMP officer outside his family’s home in Dominion City on Jan. 14.

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