Halifax man who won human rights case against police says the officers got off easy
Halifax s Gyasi Symonds says he s glad he won his human rights complaint against the Halifax Regional Police but he says the two officers who racially discriminated against him got off with a slap on the wrist.
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Posted: May 06, 2021 5:18 PM ET | Last Updated: May 6
Gyasi Symonds has won his human rights complaint against Halifax Regional Police and the Halifax Regional Municipality after 2 police officers followed him to his downtown office building in 2017 and issued a ticket for jaywalking. (Submitted by Gyasi Symonds )
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An independent human rights board of inquiry has found that a Halifax man was discriminated against by police when ticketed for jaywalking.
Board chair Benjamin Perryman released his decision today, May 5. In it, he describes the interactions between Gyasi Symonds and two Halifax Regional Police officers, finding that Mr. Symonds was discriminated against on the basis of his race and/or colour.
Mr. Perryman found that Const. Paul Cadieux and Const. Steve Logan targeted Mr. Symonds on the morning of Jan. 24, 2017, because he is Black. Mr. Perryman describes two separate interactions between police and Mr. Symonds that were initiated when Mr. Symonds was observed jaywalking on Gottingen Street in Halifax. During the first interaction, police talked to Mr. Symonds about why people should not jaywalk and he was free to go. In the second interaction, he was confronted at his nearby workplace and ticketed.
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HALIFAX A human rights board of inquiry has found that a Black man was discriminated against by Halifax police when he was ticketed for jaywalking. Board chairman Benjamin Perryman released a decision today that finds Gyasi Symonds faced discrimination based on his race when he was stopped by two officers and later ticketed in […]