Two Montreal police officers who racially profiled a 54-year-old buying milk in 2017 will be suspended without pay for a month, the police ethics committee has ruled. That punishment is a record, an advocacy group says.
In 2017, the officers were looking for a suspect who was Black, 18 years old and 6-foot-1. They forcefully arrested Errol Burke, who is in his 50s and stands 5-foot-7.
A Montreal Black man who was detained and roughed up in a case of racial profiling five years ago feels cheated after Quebec's police ethics committee ruled the two officers involved will be suspended without pay for 30 days.