NEWS RELEASE ************************* 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.