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A South Shore man was racially profiled when he was arrested and jailed for nine hours after an off-duty police officer mistakenly reported a Hydro-Quebec transformer blowing up as gunshots outside his home, Quebec’s human rights commission ruled.

The Quebec Human Rights Commission ordered a cop to pay over $61,000 in damages to a Black man and his mother after falsely arresting and detaining him four years ago.Racial

Quebec's human rights commission has called on a suburban police force in the province to pay a young Black man and his mother more than $60,000 in damages after arresting and detaining him and searching their home four years ago.