Joel Debellefeuille

• Calls grow to change streets named after Christopher Columbus on island of Montreal

  Columbus Avenue, a small avenue measuring less than 140 metres long that is located off Hymus Boulevard, is raising some controversy in the West Island city.

  Politics

  Feb 1, 2023
  
• New initiative asks Montreal, Ottawa residents to film police interventions

  If you believe you've seen a police officer breaching someone's rights, a new program wants you to take video and send it to them.

  Crime

  Apr 11, 2022
  
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• Montreal-area father calls daughter’s homework assignment racist, ‘in shock’ over it

  George Stetka said the students were asked to describe two cartoon-like depictions of gangsters. One included a Black woman, the other a racialized man.

  Canada

  Feb 2, 2022
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• Quebec tribunal orders Montreal suburb of Longueuil to pay $12,000 in racial profiling case

  Judge Christian Brunelle found that the officer's actions could only be "rationally explained by the prejudices he maintained, whether consciously or not, towards a Black man driving a luxury car.''

  Canada

  Nov 22, 2020
• Longueuil man’s racial profiling case heads to Human Rights Tribunal

  The case of Joel Debellefeuille is heading to the Human Rights Tribunal after the City of Longueuil refused to compensate him for $12,000 in damages and comply with other recommendations made by the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission.

  Canada

  Apr 29, 2018
• Another win for Longueuil man who accused police of racial profiling

  Longueuil resident Joel DeBellefeuille has won another victory in his discrimination case against the Longueuil police.

  Canada

  Apr 24, 2018
• Victory in court for South Shore man accusing police of racial profiling

  Joel DeBellefeuille had a seat belt ticket dismissed in Longueuil Municipal Court. He says police racially profiled him.

  Crime

  Jun 5, 2017
• Greenfield Park man says police profiled him for third time

  A Greenfield Park man says Longueuil Police have pulled him over for the third time for "driving while black," and race relations advocates are demanding a full inquiry into the department's behavior.

  Canada

  Oct 28, 2015