Black Parks and Recreation Director Stopped by Police for Reading Book Outside

‘Louizandre Dauphin of Bathurst, New Brunswick snapped a selfie of his arched eyebrow for Facebook with red and blue police lights flashing behind him. The former high school English teacher had pulled over by the water to read a book by C.S. Lewis. All he wanted was a nice quiet place to read.
The officer said that they had received several calls from concerned citizens who said they saw a “suspicious person” on the wharf.
Dauphin serves as the city’s director of parks, recreation and tourism, which might be why he sought out the city wharf as a place to read. But his appreciation of nature isn’t why he thinks people called to complain, the Province reports. He thinks it is because he’s black.’
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