Alberta\u2019s police watchdog says it\u2019s investigating after a suspect sustained a brain hemorrhage during a takedown by an Edmonton police officer last week.<\/p>\n
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) says the man was injured during the arrest at a downtown Edmonton apartment on the evening of Feb. 10.<\/p>\n
The watchdog says officers were called about an intoxicated man who was inside a woman\u2019s apartment, and she didn\u2019t want him there. The man was the subject of an outstanding warrant, officers learned on their way to the home.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter entering the apartment, officers arrested the man without incident and put him in handcuffs,\u201d ASIRT wrote in a news release. \u201cOne officer placed the man with his chest against a wall while a second officer spoke with the woman to gather more information.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt one point, the man began turning away from the wall and toward the officer holding him. The officer then took the man to the floor in a forward, facedown position.\u201d<\/p>\n
ASIRT says it\u2019s during the takedown that the man\u2019s face struck the corner of a wooden dining room chair. He immediately became unconscious, they say, and suffered a cut lip, a small cut near his right eyebrow and a black eye.<\/p>\n
Officers called paramedics and the man was taken to hospital in an ambulance. Doctors say he sustained a brain hemorrhage, ASIRT says.<\/p>\n
The man later regained consciousness and discharged himself from hospital, the watchdog added.<\/p>\n
ASIRT\u2019s investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alberta\u2019s police watchdog says it\u2019s investigating after a suspect sustained a brain hemorrhage during a takedown by an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-486522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}