this is not good. you should not just go handcuff the first black guy you see. if you have five officers and one 81-year-old guy you needn't handcuff him until you are 99% sure he's your man.
https://www.cbc.ca/n...rrest-1.6028148
Vancouver police have apologized after officers wrongly detained and handcuffed an 81-year-old retired Black judge during his morning walk on the seawall while searching for a suspect described as dark-skinned and decades younger.
Selwyn Romilly said he was walking around Stanley Park on Friday when two police vehicles pulled up nearby and about five officers approached him. He said all five appeared to be white and were significantly taller than his five feet and eight inches.
"They said that they got a complaint about someone fitting my description, and before I could say anything, they told me to put my hands behind my back and they shackled me with handcuffs," he told CBC News.
"I have no gun, I don't have anything in my hand or my person. And here you have — at 9:45 a.m., near to Third Beach where you have lots of people — you have a black guy ... shackled in handcuffs and people passing by. I found that most embarrassing."
He said he told the officers he was a retired judge, and they released him from the handcuffs after about a minute.
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 15 May 2021 - 09:09 AM.