Laval man says police ethics commission ruling has brought him some peace
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The provincial body which reviews police ethics complaints concluded on June 8th that two Laval police officers who gave Pradel Content a ticket, erred.
Laval resident Pradel Content feels vindicated by a recent Police Ethics Committee ruling.
“I think it’s good,” he told Global News from his backyard, “because I definitely feel it’s in my favour.”
The provincial body that reviews police ethics complaints concluded on June 8th that two Laval police officers erred when they gave Content a ticket.
“In its decision on the merits, the Committee concludes that officers (Philippe) Bélisle and (Kévin) Langlois seriously lacked discernment in the exercise of their discretion and abused their authority by issuing the report, thus contravening section 6 of the Code,” the judgement reads.
According to the statement of facts in the decision, on the evening of July 12, 2018 Content, who is Black, was in front of his home when police officers stopped and turned a spotlight unto him.
“They came in front of my house to harass me,” Content recalled.
Content began video-recording the officers and after a heated exchange Content called the police a derogatory name. Days later the Laval man got a ticket in the mail for insulting an officer.
But in their finding the committee ruled that Content’s use of the word “is an expression of (his) exasperation resulting from the questionable intervention of the police…”
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