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The arrest of a 15-year-old girl in NDG Park shows that the police have a problem with profiling, critics say

MONTREAL – The mother of a 15-year-old girl who was arrested last month in an NDG park roughly, critics say, and stood out among her friends calling for an end to police profiling.

Montreal police have decided to issue a new policy for roadside checks on Wednesday, after years of calls to end the practice.

Lisa Sim, the girl’s mother, is the last to push for more responsibility in the way the police decide who to approach and how.

Her friends who were witnesses [were] also feeling that they just went to herthey didn’t go to anyone else, Sim said.

Her daughter, Jia-Li Riddell, is Asian, and Sim says she was the only group teenager who was a visible minority.

Teenagers drank wine in a park at the time and were not keeping enough distance from each other. Police were called to disperse them, but they only arrested Riddell.

No 15-year-old girl should be treated like that by the police, Sim said.

Montreal police will not comment on the specific case.

Sim is not the only one angry about the incident, which was captured on video.

Why, they ask, did the police department target the only visible minority child in the country, and why did they use that kind of force? asked city councilor Marvin Rotrand, who represents the NDG.

At a meeting in front of a police station in NDG, others gathered to support the family.

We are used to using this excessive force used against our black boys and men by the police, said Yvonne Sam from the Black Community Resource Center.

Now here they were confronted with videotapes of excessive force used against a 15-year-old Asian girl. This cannot be allowed to continue.

Fo Niemi of the Center for Research-Action on Race Relations (CRARR) said the arrest was abusive and excessive.

We are talking about reorganizing a police job, if there should have been another way for police officers to intervene, especially when it comes to young people, he said.

Riddell has not yet received a call, but she was told to take a fine for public drinks and resist arrest. She could also be charged with interfering in the work of an officer, she heard.

It was an excessive reaction, said Cesar Manuel of the Philippine Association of Montreal and Distance. Part of the Riddells family is the Philippines.

I want the issue to fall, Manuel said.

Children are children, he said, and they should be given some relief if they make a mistake in this kind of time we are suffering from, in this time of pandemic.

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