{"id":532179,"date":"2026-03-12T20:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/532179\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:45:11","slug":"lethal-force-justified-in-winnipeg-polices-fatal-shooting-of-16-year-old-expert-tells-inquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/532179\/","title":{"rendered":"Lethal force justified in Winnipeg police&#8217;s fatal shooting of 16-year-old, expert tells inquest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manitoba<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A policing expert has told an inquest that a Winnipeg officer took appropriate action when he fired two shots at a stolen vehicle and killed a 16-year-old First Nations girl.<\/p>\n<p>Officers didn&#8217;t have much time to respond as Eishia Hudson crashed Jeep: Chris Butler<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771973412_664_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"author-image-img\"\/><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/author\/brittany-hobson-1.3537464\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brittany Hobson<\/a>  \u00b7 CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Mar 12, 2026 3:35 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Eishia Hudson smiles at the camera \"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773348310_276_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Eishia Hudson was 16 years old when she was shot and killed by Winnipeg police in April 2020. (Eishia Hudson\/Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>A policing expert has told an inquest that a Winnipeg officer took appropriate action when he fired two shots at a stolen vehicle and killed a 16-year-old First Nations girl.<\/p>\n<p>Use-of-force expert Chris Butler testified officers didn&#8217;t have a lot of time to respond when the Jeep smashed into a truck at a busy intersection in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Police had responded to a liquor store robbery and were chasing the Jeep driven by Eishia Hudson.<\/p>\n<p>The officer who shot the girl has said he believed the Jeep, after it crashed into the truck, was moving toward other officers.<\/p>\n<p>Butler says police would have wanted to stop the Jeep from moving and, if they had waited any longer, other lives could have been in danger.<\/p>\n<p>The inquest is being held to look at whether systemic racism played a role in the girl&#8217;s death and whether the use of force was appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771973414_863_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"author-image-img\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"authorprofile-biography\">Brittany Hobson is a reporter with The Canadian Press.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7<a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manitoba A policing expert has told an inquest that a Winnipeg officer took appropriate action when he fired&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-532179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532179","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=532179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}