Indian man in Canada calls it a racist incident after he was ticketed for driving with his phone mounted on the windscreen.
An Indian man in Canada cried ‘racism’ when he was ticketed for $615 for driving while he had his mobile phone attached to his windscreen. Gaurav Chabra, the man, made two videos of the entire interaction with the traffic cop who was also Asian by origin. Chabra argued with the cop that he was not watching any video and his eyes were fixed on the road. He also told the cop that the car comes with a video screen as he tried to prove that watching a screen is not breaking any law. He also asked the cop if the cop had any evidence to prove that Chabra was indeed watching a video. The cops said he could ask for it in court if he wants to contest it. “I don’t know what he had to do this. Clearly, he was being racist. That’s all I can say. He had no reason to pull me over. He accepted that I was not speeding at all, I was driving fine, I was not distracted, ” Chabra said, asking how the cop could see through his tinted windows amid heavy snowfall, that there was a video playing on his phone. “When I was pulling my documents out, I accidentally exposed my money and he asked me what the money was for. I told him that it was my money and I could carry it. Dude, you don’t have to ask everything. He was clearly up to something because he was asking me questions about my cash. I respect that he was doing his hard job in this weather. But so am I. This is not your country. This is everyone’s country who lives here. You don’t own the country,” Chabra said. Social media users told him that there was no racism involved, and he indeed broke the law, as Ontario’s traffic act prohibits the driver from watching any screen unrelated to driving.
