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It was supposed to be a fun night out for ice cream, but ended with six police cruisers surrounding a young black man who was holding an ice cream cone in his hand.

Andrew Denis-Lynch, a 26-year-old actor from Kirkland, was driving his girlfriend and her teenage sister home in Côte-des-Neiges after taking them out for a treat to McDonald’s. It was just after midnight on March 7.

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Denis-Lynch stepped out from the driver’s side of his girlfriend’s car on Lemieux St., in front of her parents’ duplex, and started to do a little jig to cheer her up. At that moment, he recalls, a police cruiser pulled to a stop next to him, nearly cutting him off.

There were two officers in the police car and the female driver asked Denis-Lynch a question.

“Why are you so happy?” he quoted her as saying.

When Denis-Lynch responded that he wanted to make his girlfriend laugh, a stream of questions followed. Is that your car? What’s your name? Are you drunk?