"They willfully, and wrongly, arrested me," Kenrick McRae told a news conference on Sunday alongside Fo Niemi, the executive director of the Center on Research-Action on Race Relations (CRARR). In a news release issued Sunday, Niemi called the incident "one of the most egregious cases of racial profiling we've seen." McRae said that, after checking his papers, the officer told him his lights weren't working. Former chief Marc Parent acknowledged in 2014 that racial profiling was an ongoing issue within his department. "We do have a racial profiling problem… It's not the majority, but we have to work on that every day," Parent told Daybreak at the time.

Source: CBC News March 12, 2017 19:09 UTC