Police watchdog not recommending charges against RCMP officer accused of injuring man

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· Posted: Mar 27, 2025 4:24 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Manitoba's constabulary watchdog is not recommending charges for an RCMP serviceman who was progressive successful a  2023 apprehension that near a antheral earnestly injured with a crushed testicle. 

On the nighttime of Oct. 27, 2023, RCMP officers conducted a postulation halt connected a pickup motortruck parked successful Stonewall, Man. —  astir 30 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.

Police accidental the driver, a woman, started the car and sped disconnected arsenic officers approached, starring to an hour-long chase, according to a study released Thursday by the Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba (IIU), which investigates each superior incidents involving constabulary successful the province. 

After constabulary stopped the conveyance utilizing a spike portion adjacent Highway 8 astatine Emes Road, officers pulled the operator and a antheral rider from the truck. The rider deed the asphalt during the arrest, according to the IIU report. 

The rider told IIU investigators that aggregate officers detained him, with 1 of them either kicking, punching oregon stepping connected his testicles portion helium was connected the ground. He instantly felt utmost pain, helium said. 

Both suspects were taken to the Stonewall RCMP detachment, wherever the rider told officers astir his injury. 

He was taken to Selkirk Regional Health Centre and past transferred to the Health Sciences Centre, wherever an ultrasound showed a ruptured near testicle, according to the report. 

His testicle was removed.

The IIU says its investigators interviewed the passenger, driver, 8 witnesser officers and 4 aesculapian officials. The implicated serviceman declined an interview.

On Jan. 27, the Manitoba Prosecution Service advised the watchdog that it is not recommending charges against the officer, uncovering "a tenable uncertainty exists arsenic to whether the officer's usage of unit was excessive." 

Based connected the Crown's findings, the watchdog's civilian manager does not urge charges and has closed the case.