Acting civilian director of the Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba says in a report that the use of force was authorized and justified
Manitoba’s police watchdog has cleared two officers in the shooting death of a Winnipeg man who confronted police with an axe while officers tried to hospitalize him for mental health concerns.
Police were called to a home in the North End neighbourhood on Feb. 13, 2024, to take the 59-year-old man to the hospital for a non-voluntary examination under the province’s Mental Health Act. On the day of the shooting, officers visited the home when they were met by the man, who appeared agitated and was holding a crowbar, the report said. The man tried to close the door on them. When police tried to intervene, he discharged a fire extinguisher at them. He was then able to lock himself inside his home.
The investigation found that the man had barricaded himself in a second-floor bedroom and that when officers tried to speak with him, he discharged a fire extinguisher for a second time. Later, when officers attempted to advance on the man, he swung an axe striking a protective shield one of the officers was carrying, the report said.
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