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The Quebec Human Rights Commission most recently found that the City of Repentigny discriminated against Leslie Blot when officers stopped, handcuffed and ticketed him when he was blowing up balloons for his children.
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King filed a complaint after the first incident, and that process is not completed. It keeps happening, he told the media.
The father of four says that after 5 p.m. April 9, Montreal police followed him for a kilometre as he drove alone in a rented BMW, which he was returning to Enterprise in Côte des Neiges. King says he was pulled over on De la Savane and was told by the two officers they were doing a random spot check.
King told the media he believes he was stopped because he wears dreadlocks and was driving a BMW. In recent years, many Black Montrealers have complained of being stopped while driving luxury cars, and held a protest parade to draw attention to that.