A Black former RCMP officer is filing racial profiling complaints against two Quebec police services.

Maurice Carvery, alongside the Montreal advocacy group Red Coalition, is filing complaints to the province’s police ethics and human rights commissions over the alleged actions of Quebec provincial police and Longueuil police. They are also asking the province’s domestic security minister to investigate.

The event at the heart of the complaint is an altercation that took place while Carvery was on a visit to Montreal on July 24.

Carvery says he was smoking outside a restaurant in Longueuil, on the south shore of the city, when an officer walked…

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