By Daryl Slade
Calgary Herald
CALGARY — City police have dealt with 1,255 difficult arrests over the past three years in which use of force is required to subdue suspects, acting duty inspector Chris Butler testified at a fatality inquiry on Wednesday.
Of that total, Butler said 37 people — about half of which were previously known to police — were afflicted with excited delirium syndrome. That is what officers encountered with Gordon Walker Bowe when they answered a call to a residential break-in in the 500 block of 42nd Street S.E. on Nov. 1, 2008.
Bowe, 40, died in hospital after he was jolted with a stun gun by an officer. But it was later ruled his death was from the delirium caused by use of cocaine and the stun gun did not play a role.