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Marcus Gordon filed a complaint with the Quebec Human Rights Commission (QHRC) claiming he was singled out as a gang member because of his racial profiling. Gordon happened to take a video of the incident and in this video you can see the cop cars that have decals of anti gang squad and Gordon 27 with his girlfriend was returning from a memorial concert in Montreal. Gordon claims to be targeted because of being black, having dreadlocks, baggy jeans and wearing a baseball cap, there was a shooting two blocks away from Gordon's house that still is unsloved and the police are still investigating Gordon also claims that people behind were jaywalking and didnt receive a ticket. The Montreal police denies racial profiling becuase they say that the officer handed out a total of five tickets two to black men and two to white men also one to Gordon's girlfriend who happens to be white.
This is just another incident in which the police have been found to abuse their power. The truth is still not known of what happened that night but if you look around Canada there are a lot of incidents occuring in which the law enforcement in known to be abusing their power. The media might be adding a couple of thing and rephrasing to make the story more juicy and more appealing to the readers. On the other hands Gordon must have written a complaint because some words were exchanged or expressions between Gordon and the officers. So I believe that there was something that the officers did and they may have been racial profiling, but like all the other dozen times they will get away with it.
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