A second Vancouver police officer involved in the violent arrest that ended in the death of Myles Gray says he had never previously encountered someone in such a state that he believed was a medical situation known as “excited delirium.”
Const. Beau Spencer is among seven Vancouver officers facing a public hearing by British Columbia’s Police Complaint Commissioner into whether they committed misconduct during the fatal confrontation in 2015.
Spencer said Thursday he had been trained about excited delirium and that it could include making animalistic sounds and an inability to comprehend surroundings.
“Once the amount of time that had gone by with him fighting, it started to become more apparent that (excited delirium) might be a possibility,” he said of Gray….