Class action authorized against 9 police forces over random stops of racialized people
"The preponderant evidence shows that over time, the arbitrary power granted to the police to carry out roadside stops
without cause has become for some of them a vector, even a safe conduit for racial profiling against the Black community," Yergeau wrote in October 2022.
"The rule of law thus becomes a breach through which this sneaky form of racism rushes in."
He represents "any racialized person who has been the victim of racial profiling during a traffic stop without reason to suspect the commission of an offence by the police services of one of the defendant cities or by the Quebec provincial police since May 23, 2019."
"Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of Canada agreed to hear a case about whether it's constitutional for police to make a random traffic stop without reasonable suspicion the driver has committed an offence."
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/random-police-stops-quebec-superior-court-class-action-1.7532121