A Vancouver police officer who could be facing a disciplinary hearing following the violent 2015 death of Myles Gray is now working as a school liaison officer at a Vancouver secondary school.
That’s a worry for some parents at John Oliver Secondary whose concerns were shared with police and the school district last fall.
The Vancouver District Parent Advisory Council emailed police and the school district on behalf of the school’s parents in September, saying officers who have “participated in the death of a suspect” should not be working in schools.
Four months after Vancouver Police Department officers returned to schools last September under the re-established school liaison officer program, The Tyee filed a freedom of information request for the names and school assignments of the 17 officers and one youth justice co-ordinator in the program.
I’m gonna need to see the body cam footage, and defer to the people we’ve hired to oversee this stuff – I’m not sure I’d be a better judge of body language and conflict progression than they are at terraform and cinc automation.