{"id":878669,"date":"2026-08-31T21:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/878669\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T21:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:34:11","slug":"manitoba-police-watchdog-investigating-after-tasered-man-dies-following-chase-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/878669\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba police watchdog investigating after Tasered man dies following chase \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

WINNIPEG \u2013 Manitoba\u2019s police watchdog is investigating after officers Tasered a naked, fleeing man who later died in hospital.<\/p>\n

The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba says Winnipeg police were responding to several calls early Sunday morning about a man walking up and down a street in the city\u2019s east end in an \u201cerratic manner\u201d while removing his clothes.<\/p>\n

Winnipeg police say one of the calls came from the 42-year-old man himself, who said he and a woman were having a bad experience from drugs.<\/p>\n

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Police say that soon after, a call came in from a nearby resident who reported a man had broken into his home and assaulted him before leaving.<\/p>\n

The IIU says that officers found the naked man and tried to get him to comply with orders but the man fled, leading to a chase and the police using a Taser on him.<\/p>\n

It says the man soon became unresponsive, and he was taken to hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 31, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 Manitoba\u2019s police watchdog is investigating after officers Tasered a naked, fleeing man who later died in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-878669","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\/878669","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=878669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}