{"id":11684932,"date":"2026-02-24T07:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/?p=11684932"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:10:24","slug":"myles-gray-hearing-resumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11684932\/myles-gray-hearing-resumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing on police-involved death of Myles Gray resuming after obscenity led to delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A public hearing into the police-involved death of <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/myles-gray\">Myles Gray<\/a> resumes in Vancouver today, after a four-week adjournment triggered by an obscene remark and the subsequent resignation of counsel for the proceeding.<\/p>\n<p>The delay allowed replacement counsel, Brock Martland, to get up to speed on the case by the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner of B.C. involving seven Vancouver officers who deny misconduct in Gray&#8217;s 2015 beating 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