Myles Gray death: Probe finds police misconduct allegations ‘not substantiated’

It was 2015 erstwhile Myles Gray died pursuing a confrontation and beating involving respective Vancouver constabulary officers.

A coroner’s inquest followed, which classified the 33-year-old’s decease arsenic a homicide.

Now, 9 years aft Gray’s death, a Police Act probe has determined nary of the 7 officers’ actions progressive misconduct.

Allegations of maltreatment of authorization and neglect of work person been deemed “not substantiated.”

“I’m beauteous upset but I’m not amazed by it. It has been 9 years of this wherever we’ve gotten nowhere. So it’s conscionable different hit,” Myles Gray’s sister Melissa Gray told Global News.

The Police Act probe progressive Constables Beau Spencer, Hardeep Sahota, Kory Folkestad, Josh Wong, Nick Thompson, Derek Cain and Eric Birzneck.

Findings are included successful this 85-page study obtained by Global News.

The study was conducted by Discipline Authority Neil Dubord, who is Delta’s constabulary chief.

In the report, Dubord states successful part, “Even if the officers were each employing an objectively justifiable magnitude of force, it tin beryllium argued that astatine immoderate constituent the usage of unit by each of them collectively, tilted implicit to go excessive and unnecessary force.”

He besides says, “Police Act subject proceedings are wholly dissimilar trials oregon galore administrative tribunal hearings. The grounds is astir wholly a written record, and determination is nary cross-examination.

“While the responsive officers whitethorn situation findings …. the converse is not true: determination is cipher determination to situation the officers’ grounds oregon submissions. It is simply a strangely lopsided process.”

Ian Donaldson, lawyer for the Gray household said the result was disappointing.

“I find it unfortunate regrettable, terrible, horrible, shocking that this signifier of enactment is recovered to beryllium not blameworthy,” helium said.

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“If the occupation is the Police Act, past the Police Act ought to beryllium revisited with being mindful of the request for accountability without requiring radical to incriminate themselves.”

Dubord’s study besides states, “With nary investigating of the grounds oregon arguments, with nary counterweight, immoderate Discipline Authority volition beryllium confined to the findings arising connected the disposable evidence, which whitethorn beryllium untested and mightiness beryllium incomplete.”

Melissa Gray said the study “doesn’t marque sense.”

“Why, aft 9 years, are we going to support going and going hitting roadblock aft roadblock? For what?” she said.

“There’s been truthful overmuch symptom and agony and anguish and conscionable nothing.”

In a statement, the Vancouver Police Department told Global News the probe had taken “far excessively long, and has caused important accent connected everyone progressive and their families”

“Because this determination indispensable present beryllium reviewed by the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner, we are incapable to talk further astir this issue,” the section added.

Complainants tin present petition a reappraisal by a retired judge, involving a nationalist proceeding oregon Review connected the Record.

The constabulary ailment commissioner tin besides marque recommendations.