Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Mike Hager
Publication Date: December 11, 2024 - 21:49
Seven police officers present when a Vancouver man died after a severe beating to face public hearing
December 11, 2024
Seven Vancouver police officers will soon face a public disciplinary hearing over their involvement in the fatal beating of a 33-year-old man while he was being arrested during a mental-health crisis nearly a decade ago.In 2015, Myles Gray died on the lawn of a property just east of Vancouver after police were called to respond to a complaint about a man behaving erratically. A subsequent investigation by B.C.’s Independent Investigations Office, which probes cases where police kill or seriously harm members of the public, found there there were grounds to charge some of the officers with manslaughter, aggravated assault and assault causing bodily harm.
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