A man running on East Broadway was stopped by Vancouver police.
A police department report recalls that the unnamed individual “seemed suspicious”.
His face was covered by a bandana. He was also wearing a cap.
“Only his eyes were visible,” the report stated.
Moreover, he was carrying backpack on his front.
The man is black.
Was it a case of racial profiling?
A female friend of the man believed it was.
The woman, whose identity was redacted, filed a complaint.
According to her, the man was late for work, and that’s why he was running toward a SkyTrain station.
“He was hugging his backpack in the front as running with it on the back would cause too much movement up and down,” she related. “A police car drove in front of him and cut him off on the sidewalk.”
“If this was a white, asian or any other nationality, this would not have happened,” the woman continued. “I am deeply troubled by this racial profiling….this assumption that he stole something because my friend’s skin colour is black and running with a backpack.”
“My friend happens to be one of the most hardworking people I know, working two jobs,” she wrote in her complaint.
The Vancouver Police Department disagrees that it was a case of racial profiling.
“The friend was stopped because the combination of running while wearing a face covering and baseball-style cap on a relatively warm and sunny day, which covered his entire face with only his eyes being visible, seemed suspicious,” Drazen Manojlovic, director of planning, research and audit section, wrote in a report to the Vancouver police board chaired by Mayor Kennedy Stewart.
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Ban face coverings. Easy. Westerners have learned to read a lot of information from facial expression and the look of and in the eyes.
Dude’s face was covered with a bandana, and he was running fast with his backpack on his front. Black, yellow, red, white, blue – who gives a shit? In such circumstances, damn good on the cops to have stopped him! Christ, for all they knew, he could have been carrying a bomb in that backpack. These professional victims need a slap upside their woolly heads!
B.S. This ain’t the US, the bandana? pollution filter. Notice how they staged the photo? Black, white, male female, Sikh…
Yes police racially profile people. Yes they usually profile races who commit more crime, get over it. I hate police more than most but i also understand they have a job to do and some even attempt to do it . That’s how profiling happens . Fact of life
That little blonde with the pony-tail could handcuff me. Hell, she could unlawfully confine me till I got hungry.