A long-anticipated hearing into the police-involved death of Myles Gray in 2015 is being adjourned for four weeks, after it was derailed by an obscene remark and the subsequent resignation of counsel for the proceeding in Vancouver.

Counsel for the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner Chris Considine says lawyers representing police, including a woman who may have been the target of the vulgarity, are opposing the return of public hearing counsel Brad Hickford, despite a plea from the adjudicator to “get over it.”

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Considine says a replacement for Hickford is being appointed, but it will take time for them to get up to speed on the case in which seven Vancouver officers deny misconduct in Gray’s beating death, which a coroner concluded was a homicide.

More to come.