The recent stay of an assault charge against a Mountie who put his knee on a man's neck for more than three minutes during an arrest exemplifies unfair double standards that seem to be at play when police are accused of wrongdoing, says a law professor who studies officers charged with crimes.
A Manitoba RCMP officer who put his knee on a man’s neck for more than three minutes as the man cried "I can’t breathe" during a 2019 arrest at Winnipeg’s airport is no longer facing criminal prosecution.