A report by Quebec’s coroner’s office into the 2017 death of Pierre Coriolan, who was shot and killed by Montreal police while in the midst of a mental-health crisis, has found that officers lack sufficient training to de-escalate and communicate, and they were relying on “outdated” and “obsolete” techniques.
Coriolan, a 58-year-old Black man, was shot by police in his apartment building in Montreal’s Gay Village on June 27, 2017. Police were responding to 911 calls about a man in distress, yelling and smashing things in his apartment.
A total of six police officers responded to the call. The officers testified at the coroner’s
