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THOMPSON, Man. — An RCMP officer who punched a man while leaving a bar, causing a severe cut to his head, has been acquitted of assault causing bodily harm.
A Thompson RCMP officer who punched a 50-year-old man two times in June 2019 was found not guilty of assault causing bodily harm on Jan. 19.
A judge has acquitted an RCMP officer who punched a man while leaving a bar in northern Manitoba. Read more.
The trial of an RCMP officer accused of assaulting a man outside a Thompson, Man., hotel bar opened on Monday with a witness saying the first arriving officer was agitated over the police regularly being called to the same establishment.
A previous ex parte order by a judicial justice of the peace said both reports, written by Const. Jeremiah Dumont-Fontaine within four hours of the June 6, 2019 incident, for which he faces an assault charge, had to be turned over to the IIU, which the RCMP contested. Manitoba RCMP told the CBC that the report had already been turned over. IIU civilian director Zane Tessler told the CBC that the decision was significant. “This is one of the first, if not the first [decision] of its kind in Manitoba that deals with defining what is or is not a note,” Tessler said.