A video from June 2025 of a driver yelling misogynistic insults at a female police officer resurfaced this weekend, sparking outcry from politicians and law enforcement officials.
In a video circulating on social media has been verified by the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), a driver is heard insulting and humiliating a female police officer that appears to have pulled him over.
“Shut your mouth, you f—ing whore,” the driver says near the beginning of the video. He repeatedly calls her a dirty whore and tells her to shut up several times over the course of the one-and-a-half minute video.
After accusing the officer of racial profiling and following him from the parking lot, he says to the officer: “Is it my fault that you make $20 an hour? Is it my fault that I’m richer than you? If I want to, I’ll buy you right here and sell you into slavery. You’re my slave, basically; if I want to, you’re my slave.”
The police officer remains level-headed throughout the video, never yelling at or insulting the driver.
SPVM Chief Fady Dagher called the man’s behaviour “unacceptable,” saying it reflects a “repugnant environment” of a male supremacist movement.
“I’ve already made my case before regarding a municipal bylaw under the previous administration, and the mayor is already in close contact with her adviser to explore the possibilities of implementing regulations in Montreal” about insulting police officers, he told reporters Monday at the SPVM headquarters.
Dagher said above all, he commends the “emotional restraint and intellectual composure” of the officer.
Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada told reporters it is “completely unacceptable” to speak to a woman that way, “whether she is in uniform or not.”
“These misogynistic and disrespectful remarks have no place in Montreal. Now, how do we ensure that citizens who are stopped by the police feel they’re being stopped for the right reasons, and how do we ensure that the police are respected in their role?” Martinez Ferrada said.
Asked about a bylaw, Martinez Ferrada said “it’s too early to say whether a bylaw is what we need.”
“Montreal has never needed that. I think we have a police force that also works differently, with its community partnerships and its police officers who are practically social workers on the ground.”
She said her administration will have a conversation with the SPVM to “figure out how we can ensure we have a community and a city where mutual respect prevails between citizens and the police.”
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