{"id":956002,"date":"2026-11-02T22:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956002\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T22:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:34:10","slug":"7-montreal-police-officers-dismissed-over-alleged-discriminatory-and-racist-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956002\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Montreal police officers dismissed over alleged &#8216;discriminatory and racist&#8217; acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Montreal\u2019s police department has dismissed seven officers in connection with racism and discrimination allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The allegations entail \u201cdiscriminatory and racist actions, as well as derogatory acts,\u201d a Monday afternoon press release from the SPVM says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was not immediately clear whether the \u201cadministrative dismissals\u201d are linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/montreal-police-announce-two-investigations-linked-to-station-39-racism-allegations\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/montreal-police-announce-two-investigations-linked-to-station-39-racism-allegations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ongoing investigations<\/a> into alleged police misconduct. A press conference is scheduled for 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, Radio-Canada reported allegations that a police officer at Station 39 in Montreal North <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/women-no-longer-trust-police-montreal-north-groups-say\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/women-no-longer-trust-police-montreal-north-groups-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">erased video evidence of domestic violence<\/a> from a victim\u2019s phone after recognizing the perpetrator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That station remains under investigation for alleged racist incidents, which this summer saw a 16-officer patrol unit disbanded and four officers suspended. La Presse and Radio-Canada report that officers in the unit <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/montreal-police-face-major-racism-probe-after-officers-allegedly-kept-hair-as-trophies\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/montreal-police-face-major-racism-probe-after-officers-allegedly-kept-hair-as-trophies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">cut hair off Black men to keep as trophies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In October, Montreal police suspended two officers from a downtown station, including one who reportedly urinated on unhoused people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This report will be updated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal\u2019s police department has dismissed seven officers in connection with racism and discrimination allegations. The allegations entail \u201cdiscriminatory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-956002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}