Profiling: Me Dardia Joseph explains to us the class action against eight Cities
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Eight Quebec cities including Montreal will have to defend themselves against a class action lawsuit authorized against them in profiling cases. How does it work?
A class action has been authorized by the Superior Court against several Quebec cities, including Montreal, Quebec City, Longueuil, Repentigny, Laval, Blainville, Gatineau and Terrebonne, as well as the Attorney General of Quebec as representative of the Sûreté du Québec (collectively "the defendants").
It is citizen Papa Ndianko Guèye who is bringing this lawsuit seeking compensation for racialized people who were victims of racial profiling during traffic stops without reasonable suspicion of an offense (sometimes described as "routine checks") carried out by the defendants' police services since May 23, 2019.