It is not only in Montreal that the police find themselves on the saddle for allegations of racial profiling. In France, racialized people claim to be arrested by the police for no reason or for peccadilles, and the phenomenon there is a name: multi-verbalization, a phenomenon mediated but little recognized by the authorities. La Presse went to meet young people from Pontoise, in the Paris suburbs.
It is not only in Montreal that the police find themselves on the saddle for allegations of racial profiling. In France, racialized people claim to be arrested by the police for no reason or for peccadilles, and the phenomenon there is a name: multi-verbalization, a phenomenon mediated but little recognized by the authorities. La Presse went to meet young people from Pontoise, in the Paris suburbs.