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A Manitoba RCMP officer has been charged following a 2019 arrest during which a Mountie pressed his knee on the neck of a man at Winnipeg's airport, while the man repeatedly cried "I can't breathe."
Manitoba's police watchdog said in a news release on Monday that there are reasonable grounds to believe a criminal offence occurred.
Const. Eric Gerein is charged with assault and ordered to appear in provincial court on Sept. 26.
The arrest outside the James Richardson International Airport was captured on video by the father of Nathan Lasuik, the man who was pinned to the ground.
The footage shows an RCMP officer kneeling on Lasuik's neck and placing the man's face against the ground. The officer does not appear to adjust his knee, nor the pressure, despite repeated pleas from the man.
28 авг 2022
