Black woman says Montreal police ‘humiliated’ her, told to scrape off car tints with coin
Global News
A retired healthcare worker who runs a Montreal food bank says she was left feeling 'shaken and angry' after police forced her to scratch off her car tints on the side of the road.
A 62-year-old Black woman in Montreal says she was racially profiled by police when a traffic stop turned into “one of the most humiliating experiences” of her life.
Charlene Hunte, a grandmother and retired health-care worker who runs a local food bank says police stopped her on the morning of April 30 in the city’s Little Burgundy neighbourhood at 8 a.m.
She was on her way to serve her community from Union United Church, Quebec’s oldest Black church, where the food bank operates just a couple of blocks from where the incident took place.
Hunte says Montreal police pulled her over because the tints on her vehicle windows were darker than allowed under the law. They told her they couldn’t see her through her side windows. She claims she’s had those tints on her car for five years without any issue.
“I said, ‘OK, fine. I have to go. I have to open up the food bank for the people. Give me a 24-hour citation and I will get it done tomorrow,'” Hunte told Global News on Tuesday.
What happened next left Hunte feeling “shaken and angry.”
After insisting she would remove her tints the very next day, a male officer told her to she had to do it on the spot by scraping off the tints by hand using a quarter.
“I was pissed off,” she said. “He said, ‘If you don’t take it off, I’m towing your car.'”
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