The Quebec Human Rights Commission found that the City of Repentigny discriminated against Leslie Blot when officers stopped, handcuffed and ticketed him when he was blowing up inflatable toys for his children in 2017.A suburb north of Montreal says it is reviewing its police practices after a string of recent racial profiling complaints against its officers were upheld by a human rights commission.
The commission ruled the evidence supports sending the case to be heard by the province’s human rights tribunal unless the city agrees to a settlement that includes paying Blot more than $38,000 and taking several actions to reduce profiling, including collecting race-based data on police stops.
Niemi says Blot’s case is the fourth time the rights commission has ruled against the city, and each time Repentigny has chosen to allow the file to proceed to the province’s human rights tribunal rather than accepting the proposed settlement.