Lawyers for the City of Montreal will be asking Quebec’s Court of Appeal this morning to overturn a landmark ruling on racial profiling by police.
Racialized citizens alleged in the class-action suit that they were unfairly arrested, detained, and racially profiled by police between mid-August 2017 and January 2019.
In September 2024, Superior Court Justice Dominique Poulin said Montreal police has a systemic racial profiling problem and held the city responsible.
Poulin added that victims had their Charter rights violated and deserved up to $5,000 in damages.
As always, ACAB.
There’s a satirical song from 1992 about Montreal saying “I live in a cosmopolitan city, all ethnicities are living in harmony. We have a police force that beats up all the blaks that look suspicious, and when all blacks ran away, the police takes its revenge on gays. So if you meet a policeman, don’t take any chances dear and run away.”
We can see how much things changed in 35 years.