Emmanuel Abraham filed his complaint to Quebec’s police ethics commissioner a decade ago. It took more than five years for it to reach a hearing at Quebec’s police ethics tribunal. That’s where he thought the case ended.
When Emmanuel Abraham filed a racial profiling complaint against a Terrebonne, Que., police officer nearly a decade ago, he never thought he’d still be waiting to see if the officer would be punished.
“For me to wait 10 years — that’s just beyond crazy, you know?” said Abraham.
Few cases of racial profiling make it to Quebec’s police ethics tribunal. And for those, like Abraham’s, that do, critics say the lengthy, complex process discourages complaints from being made in the first place.
In December 2014, Abraham, who is Black, was driving in the Montreal suburb of Terrebonne when he was pulled over by a police officer who asked him what he was doing …