Montreal church worker humiliated after alleged police racial profiling
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Charlene Hunte says she was on her way to the Union United Church in Montreal's Little Burgundy neighbourhood when suddenly she was stopped by police.
Charlene Hunte says she was on her way to the Union United Church in Montreal's Little Burgundy neighbourhood when suddenly she was stopped by police.
She says officers told her the tinted windows on her car were illegal.
"I said, 'OK, give me a citation, I have 24 hours. But I got to go, I got to go deal with the homeless, I got to open the food bank and tomorrow I'll go to the nearest police station.' And I would show them that I took it off," she said. "'No, no, no, no, it doesn't work that way, you got to do it now.'"
Hunte claims the officer told her to scrape the tint off using a quarter or she would have her vehicle towed.
When she couldn't find a coin, she says the officer gave her a pocket knife.
"I was given a knife to take off a tint. What if somebody saw it was me holding a knife at an officer and they tried to... all of that came to my mind," she said.
The Center for Research-Action on Race Relations (CRARR) says it has reason to believe Hunte's race may have played a part in the incident.
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