{"id":949759,"date":"2026-10-28T19:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T19:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949759\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T19:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T19:58:12","slug":"manitoba-mountie-facing-assault-charge-after-mans-arm-broken-during-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949759\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba Mountie facing assault charge after man&#8217;s arm broken during arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Manitoba police officer is facing an assault charge after a man\u2019s arm was broken during an attempted arrest in the northern city of Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>The province\u2019s police watchdog says RCMP were called last year to a disturbance at the Thompson Regional Community Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba previously said a physical altercation broke out between an off-duty officer and another man, when the man refused to confirm his identity to the officer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog says at one point the man was put on the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to the local hospital and later sent to the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg for surgery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Const. Mike McGrath is charged with aggravated assault. \u2028<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 28, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Winnipeg as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=winnipeg.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793217492_866_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Manitoba police officer is facing an assault charge after a man\u2019s arm was broken during an attempted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-949759","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\/949759","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=949759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}