CP NewsAlert: Myles Gray police beating hearing adjourned after hot mic obscenity

By Canadian Press on January 22, 2026.

VANCOUVER — A public hearing into the 2015 police beating death of Myles Gray that got underway in Vancouver this week has been adjourned after a lawyer used a strong obscenity to describe someone in a remark captured by a microphone.

The long-awaited hearing by the Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner that is scheduled to last 10 weeks was halted midway through Wednesday’s testimony and a posting on its audio feed says it will resume Monday morning.

The live audio stream of Wednesday’s proceeding captured the obscenity, in which a lawyer whispered that another person was “stupid,” describing them with an obscenity sometimes used to describe a woman.

More coming.

The Canadian Press