Article content $964,000 — that is the mammoth award received by Levan Francis, a correctional officer at North Fraser Pre-trial Centre, after the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal found that he was targeted for being black. This decision includes the largest award for damages for injury to dignity in British Columbia totalling $176,000. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or CHAUDHRI: Whopping judgment in B.C. discrimination case rocks employment world Back to video Francis worked at North Fraser for over 10 years with no disciplinary record and was, by all accounts, a good employee with a good employment record. He was targeted because of his race. He was stereotyped by management as being slow and lazy. He was called a “lazy Black man” by a supervisor.