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NEWS > 12 May 2007

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A case of 'driving while black
If you're black and drive a fancy car, get ready for racial profiling by Montreal police, says the father of a family that complains of being harassed last week.

Lynwald Cox, 26, and his mother, Julie Cox, say they were harassed June 13 when police stopped him for making an illegal left turn while he was driving his Nissan Maxima near the Van Horne Shopping Centre.

The Chateauguay residents went public yesterday with their complaint to the police ethics commission, but Ryan Cox, father of Lynwald and husband of Julie, says it's part of a pattern.

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No charges for cops who killed

Eleven British police officers will not face disciplinary action in the death of a Brazilian man who was mistaken for a terrorist and gunned down in the subway days after the 2005 London transit bombings, a police commission said Friday.

Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was shot seven times in the head by Scotland Yard anti-terror officers as he sat on a London subway train July 22, 2005 - two weeks after four suicide bombers killed themselves and 52 commuters on three subway trains and a bus, and a day after a failed set of attacks.

Police acknowledge they had wrongly identified de Menezes. Prosecutors decided last year they would not seek criminal charges against the officers involved.

On Friday, the Independent Police Complaints Commission said the officers would also not face disciplinary action on the force.

"The grief and anger of (de Menezes') family is entirely understandable and - as I have been powerfully reminded - remains unassuaged,'' said the commission's chairman, Nick Hardwick.
 

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