BURNABY, B.C. — A Vancouver police officer told a British Columbia coroner's jury that he punched Myles Gray in the head as hard as he could several times because he didn't think anything else would work to subdue the man, other than shooting him.
Const. Kory Folkestad testified on the third day of the inquest into Gray's death in August 2015 following a beating by several officers that left him with injuries including a fractured eye socket, a crushed voice box and a ruptured testicle.
Birzneck said he now works as a use-of-force training officer and at the time of Gray's death he had been a trained crisis negotiator.Birzneck told the inquest that he thought mental health, drugs, or a combination of both potential factors were affecting Gray's behaviour. "All of a sudden, he just ripped his arms out from us and squared off with us with a speed and strength I couldn't believe," Folkestad said.
Folkestad told the jury that when he first saw Gray he believed the 33-year-old was experiencing"excited delirium," something he said makes people unpredictable with"superhuman strength." The jury members should put less weight on the evidence of a lay person on the topic and would be hearing from a medical expert later, he said.
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