By The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba aboriginal leader is calling for an independent investigation into a police shooting in Winnipeg.
Morris Swan-Shannacappo, head of the Southern Chiefs Organization, says he doesn't want the police service investigating itself.
Police shot and killed a man with a machete Saturday night outside a home in the city's west end.
Police say the man, identified by relatives as 28-year-old Eric Daniels, refused repeated orders to drop his weapon.
The Manitoba government recently passed a law that will establish a special investigations unit to examine such incidents, but the unit is still a work in progress.
There will be an inquest into the death, because inquests are mandatory in Manitoba whenever someone dies as a result of police actions.