Racial profiling is systemic problem in Montreal police, judge rules

Advocates say profiling characterized many arrests' as judge awards millions in damages in class-action lawsuit

Racial profiling is a systemic problem in the Montreal police force, a Quebec judge has ruled, as she awarded damages in a class action lawsuit that advocates call a decision that meets with reality".

Justice Dominique Poulin found that the city bore responsibility for racial profiling committed by its police officers and was obliged to compensate those affected.