Around 200 people gathered near Montreal Police headquarters on Sunday afternoon to protest racial profiling and police brutality. While police insisted Camara's arrest was not due to racial profiling, activists say the incident is part of a larger pattern of inequality. Our skin in constantly weaponized," said Marlihan Lopez, a member of Black Lives Matter Montreal and co-founder of the Defund the Police Coalition. A woman holds up a sign of support for Mamadi Camara during a demonstration against police violence in Montreal on Sunday. "We don't need another study to tell us that there is systemic racism within the police; we want action."

Source: CBC News February 08, 2021 01:18 UTC