![]() ![]() Jasmine Smith and Angela Desrosiers were driving together on the Redwood Avenue crossing around 2 p.m. Two community workers have filed a complaint with the Winnipeg Police Service, saying they witnessed officers berating and swearing at a woman who was attempting to hang herself on the Redwood Bridge. Officers accused of mistreating woman in distress on bridge Her March 17 arrest came less than two weeks after two community workers filed a complaint with the police, alleging they saw two officers berating and swearing at a woman attempting to commit suicide by hanging on the Redwood Bridge. “The antics of the accused… have taken a large amount of Winnipeg Police Service manpower and Winnipeg Fire paramedic resources and medical staff, in the time of a pandemic are all… overworked and exhausted.” – Arrest report The 19-year-old woman has been the subject of 241 “calls for service” in the past 10 years, 25 of them from city bridges, it said. “The antics of the accused… have taken a large amount of Winnipeg Police Service manpower and Winnipeg Fire paramedic resources and medical staff, in the time of a pandemic are all… overworked and exhausted,” the report said. The arrest of a Winnipeg woman after she threatened to jump off a city bridge is renewing questions about how city police deal with people experiencing mental-health crises.Īn arrest report provided to court March 19 opposing the woman’s release on bail recommended she be prohibited from attending to any bridges in Manitoba and using them for “attention seeking.” This article was published (779 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
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