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Sgt. Thomas Gresty says doubt began to creep into his mind moments after he delivered “three or four” knee-strikes to the top of Jordan Bruce Lafond’s head in the aftermath of a high-speed chase, a coroner’s inquest heard.

“I’m pretty confident now that I was looking at it wrong, that I saw it wrong,” the 15-year Saskatoon police veteran testified under cross-examination, referring to his initial belief that Lafond was resisting arrest.

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Cpl. Danial Swan, another officer on the scene of the pursuit-ending crash, subsequently testified that he and another officer, Const. Kelly Olafson, had control of Lafond’s hands and that he was not moving at all.

“There was no need” to deliver knee strikes, Swan testified, even though Lafond’s jacket was making it difficult for Olafson to close the handcuff bracelet around the 21-year-old man’s wrist.

Lafond died on Oct. 24, 2016, about 24 hours after he and Reece Terance Fiddler — who were in a stolen Ford F-150 containing four firearms — led police on an eight-minute pursuit across Saskatoon’s west side.