WINNIPEG \u2014 Winnipeg police have charged a security guard with assault after video surfacing online appeared to show him using brass knuckles to punch out a suspected shoplifter.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old guard was arrested Monday evening and charged with assault with a weapon, unauthorized possession of a prohibited or restricted weapon and uttering threats after police became aware the assault was captured on camera.<\/p>\n
Police said the case began when officers were called to a Dollarama discount store in the city’s downtown on Saturday, where they arrested a 46-year-old who had been detained by an on-duty security guard.<\/p>\n
That man is accused of concealing $95 worth of merchandise and trying to leave the store before the guard intervened. That man was charged with robbery and uttering threats.<\/p>\n
Later on, an onlooker posted a 90-second video on social media that appears to show the guard punching the man, who is laying on the ground, and threatening to kill him.<\/p>\n
“Stay down or I’ll (expletive) kill you. Try me. Touch me you (expletive) idiot,” the guard is heard saying.<\/p>\n
The guard is also seen kicking the suspect amid a debris field of smashed shelving and potato chip bags while swearing at patrons urging him to stop the assault.<\/p>\n
When an onlooker tries to intervene the guard swears at him and says “You want to go next?”<\/p>\n
The guard appears to tell people looking that the man on the ground hit him first.<\/p>\n
The guard was released on an undertaking and is expected to appear in court at a later date.<\/p>\n
First Nations groups have condemned the acts depicted in the video. The man has not been identified but the groups say he is Indigenous.<\/p>\n
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs said the video raises serious questions about use-of-force practices and how First Nations people are treated in public spaces.<\/p>\n
The advocacy group, which represents First Nations in the province, said it has filed a formal complaint with the province, which regulates the security industry.<\/p>\n
It has requested an immediate review of the guard’s licensing status and the security company’s compliance history.<\/p>\n
The Southern Chiefs’ Organization said this incident is not an isolated case and that First Nations people have experienced a troubling pattern of being profiled and subject to unsafe, discriminatory and degrading treatment in retail stores and other businesses.<\/p>\n
The group is calling for an independent review of the incident that should examine use-of-force policies, de-escalation requirement and cultural safety training specific to First Nations peoples.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 3, 2026.<\/p>\n
Brittany Hobson, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2014 Winnipeg police have charged a security guard with assault after video surfacing online appeared to show…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[198945,49,48,58094,203366,22073,179229],"class_list":["post-512354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-brass-knuckles","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-security-guard","tag-uttering-threats","tag-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512354","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=512354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}