A police officer stepped over the line when he detained a Quebec woman for refusing to hold onto an escalator handrail, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday while also slamming Montreal’s transit authority. Kosoian is entitled to a total of $20,000 in damages from Const. Fabio Camacho, the City of Laval as Camacho’s employer, and the STM, the court ruled. She was acquitted of the infractions in Montreal municipal court in 2012 and subsequently filed a $45,000 lawsuit. Her suit was rejected by Quebec court in 2015 and two years later by the Quebec Court of Appeal, which said Kosoian was the “author of her own misfortune.”But the Supreme Court found Kosoian “was entitled to refuse to obey an unlawful order.”

Source: National Post November 29, 2019 16:20 UTC