The forensic pathologist who autopsied Myles Gray’s body after he was beaten by Vancouver police in 2015 said he determined a “perfect storm” of factors led to his death, primarily extreme stress on his heart and lungs as well as officers having forcefully restrained him on the ground.
Dr. Matthew Orde told a coroner’s inquest on Thursday he designated Gray’s cause of death as “cardio-pulmonary arrest” complicated by police officers who caused multiple blunt-force injuries, compressed his neck, pepper-sprayed him, handcuffed him behind his back and forcibly held him on his stomach.
“I don’t think he would’ve died when he did, had it not been for the police
