Black Lives Ruined: The effects of racial profiling by police [Video]

Racial profiling is a systemic problem plaguing Montreal police (SPVM), according to a judgement by Superior Court Justice Dominique Poulin.

But what does that mean in the lives of the victims?

This is part one of a CTV News three-part series called Black Lives Ruined: The effects of racial profiling by police.

CTV News spoke to eight Black male Montrealers about how racial profiling has impacted them.

These are their words.    

Errol Burke. (Errol Burke)

Errol Burke

First time stopped by police: 1974

“Many times in my long life, as I look at it now, I’ve had to deal with being what I always perceived as being persecuted by the police, which amounts to exactly that, being profiled, having been pinned or viewed as someone who’s suspicious of doing something, for merely being out in public.

Even though I know, personally, that it actually happens, even I get tired of hearing about it; some people, maybe, to the point …