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Police arrested for hijacking
A policeman from the Pretoria vehicle theft unit has been arrested in connection with a truck hijacking, police said.

Inspector Anton Breedt said the policeman was arrested on Tuesday shortly after the hijacking near Rosslyn Park.

"The policeman and two other men stopped a truck, carrying cotton and 300 boxes of cigarettes, just outside Pretoria," said Breedt.

"The three were driving a white Almeira. They forced the occupants of the truck - two men and three women - out of the truck and then asked them to get into other vehicles."

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Police stopped Quebecker for b

One night about 7, Marie-Anne Laquerre was driving her teenaged sons to their basketball championship dinner when she was stopped by police. They said her van was deemed "of interest" and her back windshield wiper seemed defective.

But the routine check became more than that. Mrs. Laquerre felt she was targeted because she is black. And now Quebec's Police Ethics Committee has agreed, ruling that the Quebec City mother was the victim of racial profiling.

The ethics committee said the two officers who stopped Mrs. Laquerre were motivated by race.

"It is obvious for the committee that the true motive for intercepting Mrs. Laquerre's vehicle was the race of the vehicle's occupants," the committee said in its recent ruling.

The ethics committee ruled that on April 6, 2003, while her twin 17-year-old sons were with her, Mrs. Laquerre's van was intercepted in Quebec City by officers Alain Pelletier and Jean-Fran�ois Caron. They asked for her driver's licence and other papers and wrote out a ticket.

The officers told the committee that the van's back windshield appeared broken. They ran a check on the van because its make is often targeted by thieves, they said.

But the committee, an administrative tribunal, rejected the officers' explanation. For one, a broken windshield doesn't violate the Quebec highway code, it wrote. Both officers acknowledged that they ran checks on Mrs. Laquerre and her van after noticing the occupants were black, the committee said.

As for the ticket issued to Mrs. Laquerre, it said her van's windows were "tinted and very dirty."

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