A human rights complaint has been filed against Bank of Montreal and the Vancouver Police Board after Indigenous man Maxwell Johnson and his granddaughter, 12-year-old Tori-Anne, were suspected of fraud and handcuffed while trying to open an account at a Vancouver branch of the bank last year.

Maxwell Johnson and his granddaughter Tori-Anne say they are trying to find ways to deal with anxiety, fear of police and of banks since they were suspected of fraud and handcuffed in front of a Bank of Montreal branch in downtown Vancouver last December. (Ben Nelms/CBC)

A human rights complaint has been filed against the Bank of Montreal and the Vancouver Police Board after an Indigenous man and his granddaughter were handcuffed while trying to open an account at a Vancouver branch of the bank last year.

Maxwell Johnson and his 12-year-old granddaughter Tori-Anne, both members of the Heiltsuk Nation in Bella Bella, B.C., were handcuffed on Dec. 20 after bank staff looked at the pair’s identification documents and called 911 to report an alleged fraud in progress.

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