Thompson police officer shoots and seriously injures man
CBC
A 30-year-old man was shot and seriously injured by an RCMP officer in northern Manitoba on Monday afternoon in an incident that was caught on video and is circulating on social media.
Police were serving legal documents at a home in Thompson, about 650 kilometres north of Winnipeg, on Princeton Drive at about 2:45 p.m. when they encountered a man who was allegedly armed with a knife, RCMP said in a news release issued later that day.
The encounter resulted in the officer shooting the man, who was taken to hospital with a serious injury.
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WATCH | Bystander caught the police shooting on video:
"I am extremely concerned to see the video of an MKO citizen who appears to have been shot by an RCMP officer today in Thompson, Manitoba. The video that is circulating is extremely disturbing," Garrison Settee said in an emailed statement.
Settee says he's been in touch with the RCMP and is expecting a full report about what took place.
"We are praying that the young person involved in this incident will survive and receive the support needed to heal from this."
The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba has been notified and is taking over the investigation. The IIU investigates all serious incidents involving police in the province.
The equivalent organization in Ontario is known as the Special Investigations Unit, or SIU.
Criminal defence lawyer and former prosecutor Howard Morton served as the director of SIU from 1992 to 1995. Morton reviewed two videos of the Thompson incident circulating on social media.
"There are many things you don't know at this point," he said.
Both videos are set in a residential area. They appear to show someone in a red sweater walking toward an officer and the officer walking backward across a grassy area and toward a street.
Morton said in general, an individual with a knife is considered to be within lunging range if they're within 15 feet of another person. In the videos, the person in the red sweater comes within a few feet of the officer.
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