Pradel Content was on the balcony of his apartment on a warm night last July 12 when a police car prowled past.
Content, 41, a disabled black man who had filed a complaint against Laval Police in connection with a separate incident in 2017, took out his cellphone and started filming the cruiser as it passed by a second time after turning around on the dead-end street.
The two police officers stopped, backed up, shone a powerful searchlight on Content and asked him if he had a question about his phone.