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Back in 2012, Julian Menezes happened to cross paths with Stéfanie Trudeau — a.k.a. Montreal Police Agent 728 — and witness her ticketing a cyclist who bore the famous red square of the student protest movement.

Then, he said, she turned her attention to him.

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Menezes said Trudeau handcuffed him, threw him in the back of the squad car, called him a “F-ing Indian” and drove him across the city, speeding up, then slamming on the brakes repeatedly so his face would hit the Plexiglas divider between the front and back seats.

Then at 3:30 a.m., he said, Trudeau and her police partner dumped him in the north of the city with no money for a cab home.

Four years later, that alleged “starlight tour” is finally the focus of a hearing before the police ethics committee.

On June 7, Trudeau’s lawyer indicated she might plead guilty. The notorious agent, who has been found guilty of assault in a criminal case — and faces a separate complaint before the ethics commission for pepper-spraying protesters the same day she detained Menezes — retired from the police force in October 2015.