Vancouver officers say they continued to beat Myles Gray because he continued to resist
Vancouver police officers say pepper spraying Myles Gray, beating him with their fists and batons and putting him in neck restraints were all necessary levels of force in the violent struggle that left him dead.
The inquest’s jury heard from Gray’s younger sister Melissa Gray on Monday that he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in high school and that Melissa believed her brother was suffering a manic episode on the day of his death. The 911 callers told dispatchers they thought Gray may be intoxicated or high.Myles Gray was likely suffering manic episode when police beat him, sister tells B.C. inquest
Neither of Birzneck’s two fellow officers, constables Hardeep Sahota and Kory Folkestad, remembered things the same way, though. Sahota told the jury Birzneck instructed Gray to get on the ground and then immediately pepper-sprayed him when he didn’t comply. Folkestad said Birzneck pepper-sprayed Gray after he “tensed his whole body and let out [a] huge primal roar.”This variation in officers’ memories was cited by the B.C.
After Birzneck pepper-sprayed Gray, Sahota and Folkestad said they tried to handcuff him but Gray broke free of them. Folkestad told the jury he was impacted by some of the pepper spray and that Gray threw him across the yard at one point and knocked him unconscious with a punch to the face at another point.Sahota and Birzneck said they both used their batons to beat Gray’s legs and Folkestad said he punched Gray in the face “as hard as I could as many times as I could.
Once officers were able to get Gray onto his side and stomach, Birzneck said he twice applied a kind of choke hold known as a “vascular neck restraint” to Gray to try and slow the flow of blood to his brain and make him pass out. Birzneck said he continued with the second choke hold until Gray was handcuffed.
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