Racial profiling alleged in another SPVM case

Two Black teenagers have launched a racial profiling suit against three SPVM officers and the city over incidents in 2021 in which the officers allegedly knelt on the necks of the boys, both 15 years old at the time, in the environs of a big high school in Villeray.

I know the area well. It’s flooded with students at certain hours. When police have to resort to charging a teenager with jaywalking to concoct an excuse for cuffing and physically subduing him, you know there’s been dirty work at the crossroads.

NB that kneeling on necks “is part of the National Use of Force Model that is taught at Quebec’s policing school.”