One October night on a downtown street in the small southeastern Alberta city of Brooks, RCMP officers were in the process of arresting a man for drunk driving when he pointed at his passenger.
He told police she should be arrested for prostitution because he’d just paid her $300 for sex.
Selling sex is not illegal. Buying sex is.
That means the woman was not doing anything wrong but, by his own admission, the man was.
The passenger was Black. The man and the officers were all white.
Officer swears at woman
RCMP Const. Robert Loder took the investigative advice of
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