{"id":787047,"date":"2026-07-07T23:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/787047\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:12:12","slug":"manitoba-police-watchdog-investigating-after-detained-man-left-with-skull-fracture-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/787047\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba police watchdog investigating after detained man left with skull fracture \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

WINNIPEG \u2013 Manitoba\u2019s police watchdog is investigating after officers wrestled a man to the ground and he was later taken to a hospital with a cracked skull.<\/p>\n

The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba says Winnipeg police received a call Monday about a drunk man who had allegedly assaulted several people at the Ndinawe Youth Resource Centre.<\/p>\n

The agency says officers detained the man and took him to the city\u2019s Protective Care Centre, a detox centre that can hold people for up to 72 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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It says that during the handover to staff, the man started to resist and kicked an officer\u2019s leg, prompting police to force the man to the ground.<\/p>\n

The agency says officers knocked the man unconscious in their efforts to regain control of him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It says the man regained consciousness and continued to resist officers while being transported to the hospital, where doctors found the skull fracture.<\/p>\n

The watchdog says it\u2019s mandated to investigate because the arrest involved serious injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 7, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 Manitoba\u2019s police watchdog is investigating after officers wrestled a man to the ground and he was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-787047","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\/787047","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=787047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}