Myles Gray case: Public inquiry called into police conduct [Video]

Seven Vancouver police officers who were present when Myles Gray was beaten to death in August 2015 will face a public hearing into their conduct, B.C.’s police complaint commissioner says.

A statement issued Wednesday by Commissioner Prabhu Rajan said Gray died after police responded to a 911 call and used “significant forced to subdue and restrain him.”

A coroner’s inquest heard Gray, 33, had severe injuries, including ruptured testicles and fractures in his eye socket, nose, voice box and rib.

He died of a cardiac arrest, complicated by “neck compression,” use of pepper spray, blunt force injuries and being forced onto his stomach while he was handcuffed behind his back, the inquest heard.

Police had been called about a report that a man had confronted a woman about watering her garden during an extended drought.

The statement from Rajan said the alleged misconduct is serious and there is “meaningful uncertainty …