Canadian tennis star Felix Auger-Aliassime posted a video on Instagram recounting his father being racially profiled by a police officer in Quebec City.
“One day he was coming back home and going around the neighbourhood in his car and he sees a police car behind him,” Auger-Aliassime recounts.“At one point he stops on the side of the road a police car stops behind him,” said Auger-Aliassime. “My dad says, ‘Sorry did I commit any offence?’ And she says, ‘No, no. You didn’t commit anything.
“She makes him understand that it’s pretty odd or rare to see people of colour driving this type of vehicle in the neighbourhood. Basically telling my dad that the fact that he’s an African black man and driving a Mercedes is subject to being pulled over.” Auger-Aliassime admits that his father’s story is not as violent as others such as Floyd’s in Minneapolis. However, the fact that someone tasked with protecting the public harassed his father is an example of how people of colour are viewed, he said.
“This is a little story. It wasn’t violent. Everything ended peacefully, but I think it’s a story to prove that these types of events create the frustration that we’ve seen lately. These type of events create what we’ve seen going on with George Floyd,” said Auger-Aliassime. “It’s not only happening to others. It can be happening to their friends, their teachers, their coaches, and it happens to everyone… There’s still a long way to go in equality.”
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