Two Winnipeg Police officers have been cleared of any wrongdoing during the arrest of a 47-year-old male suspect in February 2018.
The Independent Investigation Unit (IIU) concluded that the officers did not use excessive or unnecessary force against the man.
On February 12, 2018 Winnipeg Police were called to a Magnus Avenue apartment about a suicidal male who was high on drugs. Police knew that the male in question was also wanted on other criminal matters.
When officers arrived they found the suspect in a severely agitated state, suffering from hallucinations and paranoid. The male resisted arrest and several officers pinned the suspect to the floor in order to handcuff him.
The male was then taken to Health Sciences Centre and medical staff determine the suspect had sustained a spiral fracture to his left arm.
Due to the seriousness of this injury the IIU was informed and an investigation initiated.
Investigators talked to the suspect who admitted he had smoked an unknown drug and was hallucinating and incoherent at the time. Interviews with three other people who were in the apartment at the time of the arrest indicated that none of them saw any inappropriate actions by the officers.
© News4.ca 2020
