An officer with the Vancouver Police Department testified Wednesday that he punched an unarmed man in the head multiple times as hard as he could during a deadly struggle involving several constables, telling an inquest he believed the only alternative to subdue the man would’ve been to shoot him.
Const. Kory Folkestad took the stand on the third day of a coroner’s inquest into the death of Myles Gray, 33, who died in a wooded backyard in Burnaby, B.C., after a violent struggle with as many as nine police officers in 2015.
In his testimony, Folkestad said he and his partner, Const. Eric Birzneck, responded to the
