CP NewsAlert: B.C. coroner’s jury says Vancouver police should wear body cameras

By The Canadian Press on May 1, 2023.

Protesters hold banners with a photograph of Myles Gray, who died following a confrontation with several police officers in 2015, before the start of a coroner's inquest into his death, in Burnaby, B.C., on Monday, April 17, 2023. The five jury members at the British Columbia coroner's inquest have begun their deliberations after hearing 11 days of testimony about a beating by Vancouver police officers and the death of Myles Gray.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

BURNABY, B.C. – The jury in the British Columbia coroner’s inquest into the police beating death of Myles Gray has recommended that the Vancouver Police Department expedite its use of body-worn cameras for all officers.

The five-member jury began deliberating Monday at the end of 11 days of testimony about the 33-year-old man’s death in August 2015.

The jury found Gray died by homicide, a term that refers to a death due to injury intentionally inflicted by another person, but coroner Larry Marzinzik said the term and doesn’t imply fault or blame.

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