Winnipeg woman seeks apology from police for aiming guns at her while searching for stolen vehicle
CBC
A Winnipeg transit driver says she is traumatized after she was surrounded by multiple police officers pointing guns at her near her North End home because they mistakenly thought she was driving a stolen truck.
The incident has left her wanting an apology from Winnipeg police.
On Dec. 27, Karen Robson, 54, had just finished her shift and was driving home in her father's 2011 Silverado pickup truck around 1:30 a.m. when she noticed a black vehicle was following her.
It wasn't until she was almost home and parking the truck on the side street that she realized the vehicle was actually an unmarked police car.
"When I first noticed that vehicle following me, I was going to call the police. And then I realized, I can't call the police …they were the police and there is nobody to help me," Robson said.
"Suddenly I was surrounded by police. It was like they all converged on me."
As she looked around, she said multiple officers had guns pointed at her and began to shout at her to get out of the car.
"That was really, really scary. I'm thinking I'm going to get shot," Robson said.
That's when she started to hear from the officers there had been a carjacking of a vehicle that matched the description of her father's.
Robson said one of the officers made a hand gesture that she mistook as him asking her to back up. She put the truck in reverse and then felt the police car behind her ram into the back of the truck.
"I didn't know what was going on because this has never happened to me before," she said.
Robson began pleading with the officers that they had the wrong person, pointing at the transit uniform she was still wearing.
"That should have been a red flag for them," she said.
Police insisted she get out of the truck. When she got out, a female officer began searching her and going through her pockets.
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