Maxwell Johnson and his 12-year-old granddaughter Torianne went into a Vancouver bank to set up an account and ended up in handcuffs because the teller questioned their status card.

Richard and Dawn Wilson were shopping in line to buy a shopping cart-load of stuff from a Coquitlam Canadian Tire and allegedly had to undergo a security search in front of a busy store at the checkout counter.

Sharif Mohammed Bhamji went into a Clayton Heights TD Bank with his status card to open an account and was refused. Police later came to his house.

According to Heiltsuk First Nation Chief Marilyn Slett, these are just some of the daily indignities of racial profiling that many First Nations people endure in B.C., just going to the store, to a restaurant, to a bank.

All of these individuals are mem

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