Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante to testify in racial profiling class action | 24CA News

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is predicted to testify Wednesday in a class-action lawsuit that claims the town hasn’t acted to fight systemic racial profiling by its law enforcement officials.

The lawsuit is led by the Black Coalition of Quebec and Alexandre Lamontagne, a Black man who alleges he was brutally arrested and detained by Montreal police outdoors a bar in 2017 with none legitimate motive.

Court paperwork say he was initially charged with assault and obstructing the work of law enforcement officials, however these costs had been dropped the next yr.

The group main the $171-million lawsuit is asking for $5,000 in compensation for every racialized one who was arrested or detained by Montreal police with out motive between August 2017 and January 2019.

Montreal police Chief Fady Dagher testified final week in the course of the second day of hearings on the Montreal courthouse.

Dagher acknowledged to Quebec Superior Court Justice Dominique Poulin that racial profiling is an issue throughout the police pressure and in society as an entire, including that the pressure has been working for years to handle it.