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Two Montreal police officers have been found guilty by the police ethics committee of illegally arresting a black man driving a Mercedes and suppressing evidence.

In a 31-page decision signed by Judge Louise Rivard and dated Dec. 18, the committee ruled that officers Christian Benoit and Philippe Bernard-Thomassin engaged in several illegal acts, including racial profiling, during the March 2017 arrest of Guyana native Kenrick McRae. The ruling detailed 16 violations of the police ethics code.

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“As a black man driving a Mercedes-Benz in Montreal, I’ve been stopped and detained so many times for no justifiable reason,” McRae said Monday morning at a downtown press conference. “This is the first time the law has been on my side. Thank God that I equipped myself with digital evidence that exposed the racism, the racial profiling, the oppressive system of the Montreal police.”

The Montreal police department won’t be commenting on the ethics committee’s decision, a spokesperson for the department said Monday via email.