{"id":834390,"date":"2026-07-29T20:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834390\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T20:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:18:08","slug":"no-charges-for-winnipeg-officers-who-shot-at-stolen-truck-on-street-with-kids-playing-police-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834390\/","title":{"rendered":"No charges for Winnipeg officers who shot at stolen truck on street with kids playing: police watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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>Manitoba&#8217;s police watchdog is not recommending charges after two Winnipeg officers fired 16 shots at a stolen truck barrelling towards them.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba says the April 11, 2025, confrontation happened on what witnesses described as a busy neighbourhood street where children were playing.<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog says the driver of the truck veered onto a boulevard to escape police and later crashed into a house, igniting a fireball.<\/p>\n<p>The IIU&#8217;s acting civilian director, Bruce Sychuk, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iiumanitoba.ca\/pdf\/final_report_2025-0019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">says in a report<\/a> that he found the officers&#8217; actions were reasonable, as they feared their lives were in danger from the red pickup speeding at them.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that no one was injured in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Some witnesses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/winnipeg-police-shooting-house-fire-1.7508903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">criticized the police for firing their guns<\/a> and said they were shocked no one in the neighbourhood was hurt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-834390","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\/834390","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=834390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}