Montreal police say they’ve opened an administrative investigation into an incident in which a Black man was handcuffed after officers suspected he was…
The force said the officers involved were unable to release the man immediately after determining the car was his because they did not have a handcuff key.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
Quebec’s Public Safety Minister Francois Bonnardel said Saturday morning that he will look into what happened and Alain Vaillancourt, the member of the city’s executive committee responsible for public safety, said he has asked the police service to investigate the incident and ensure similar ones don’t happen again.Article content
As they wait for other officers to come unlock the cuffs, the man asks whether he is being treated this way because he is Black.On Friday, Montreal police said two car theft investigators found an unoccupied Honda SUV in a mall parking lot that had damage around one of its locks consistent with an attempted theft.
Alain Babineau, the racial profiling and public safety director at anti-racial profiling group Red Coalition and a 27-year veteran of the RCMP, said that while police can handcuff someone who poses a threat, that escalates the interaction into an arrest. One element of racial profiling, he said, is the notion that Black males are “perceived as being intrinsically violent and so that’s why the question of racial profiling has to be raised.”Article content
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