Montreal man accuses police of Inuit racial profiling – NunatsiaqOnline

May 13, 2016

“I really don’t like the idea of the police going around spreading mistrust of Indigenous people”

A Montreal man has filed a complaint with police after he says two officers racially profiled members of the city’s Inuit community.

Ossie Michelin was at home with a friend in Montreal’s St-Henri neighbourhood in the city’s Sud-Ouest borough May 10 when two police officers with the Service de police de la Ville de Montreal (SPVM) knocked on the door.

When Michelin answered, the officers explained in French that residents had made a number of recent complaints to police about public drunkenness, street fighting, public urination and loitering in the neighbourhood, and police were looking for the help of residents to crack down on it.