A man has been tasered and arrested after assaulting police officers and attempting to get inside the Flin Flon RCMP detachment after hours.
The incident, according to a Manitoba RCMP news release, took place April 19 shortly before midnight. Two officers, working inside the RCMP detachment on Hapnot Street, were alerted by someone knocking on the front door loudly and persistently - "the officers inside thought it sounded like someone was attempting to punch through the door," reads a news release sent out April 22.
One of the officers went to the front window to try to see who was pounding the door, but was unable to see anything. The other officer went to the detachment's locked employees-only entrance on the side of the building, located near the parking lot used by officers to store their police vehicles, and opened it to look out that way. There, the second officer saw someone - identified as an adult male - believed to be looking inside parked police vehicles.
When the officer approached the man, he took on what RCMP described as "an aggressive posture" and ran toward the open side door into the detachment. The officer got there first and shut the door on the man before he could get inside.
Following that, both officers left through the now-unobserved front door of the detachment to apprehend the man, who was still standing at the locked employees-only door on the side of the detachment. Once the man saw the officers approaching, RCMP said the man "advanced on the officers quickly and in an aggressive manner," according to the April 22 news release - officers told the man to stop moving toward them, but the man kept moving forward.
In an attempt to stop the man, one of the two officers used a taser - described by RCMP as a "conducted energy weapon" or CEW - on him, which stopped him in his tracks. The RCMP news release described the taser use as "effective in stopping the male's aggressive behaviour towards the officers", which allow them to arrest the man and to remove the two taser probes that hit him. No further medical attention was deemed necessary by police.
The man's identity has not been released by RCMP, but he has been identified as a 36-year-old man from The Pas. The man faces two charges in relation to the incident at the detachment - assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest. The man also was charged on an outstanding warrant for failure to comply with probation orders.
