VANCOUVER — A report to the Vancouver Police Board says the department is committed to adopting both recommendations from a coroner's inquest into the beating death of Myles Gray, but advocates say key concerns remain unaddressed.
In a statement released by Pivot Legal Society, the policy director for the B.C. Civil Liberties Association says the police report "leads the reader to believe that everything is fine at the — short of implementing body-worn cameras."
The jury at the coroner's inquest made two recommendations for Vancouver police, with expediting the use of body-worn cameras for all patrol officers at the top of the list, followed by enhanced crisis de-escalation training for officers — especially in situations where someone is experiencing a mental-health disturbance.
The report also outlines crisis intervention and de-escalation and use-of-force training, as well as courses focused on mental health introduced in 2020. Eby said body cameras would help provide evidence of crimes witnessed by officers, as well as accountability if police overstepped their authority. People who are forcibly restrained on their stomach are at greater risk of death, especially when their body has increased physiological demands, he testified.
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