Quebec City police subject of ethics complaint for using Chuck Norris photo during G7 Summit

A university professor has filed a complaint to the Police Ethics Commissioner after he spotted a photo of action star Chuck Norris in a police vehicle window.

Francis Dupuis-Dri said he saw the photo of Norris toting a gun in each hand on the passenger side window of a riot police van during the weekend of the summit.

"I thought that was in really bad taste and that it was a form of intimidation and threat from the police toward the public and the protesters," said Dupuis-Dri. Heteaches political science and police profiling at the Universit du Qubec Montreal and was protesting the summit.

Dupuis-Dri said the photo "outraged" him, and that it heightened tensions at the protest.

In his complaint, Dupuis-Dri stated that he found it problematic that a photo of an actor known for his fighting was being showcasedby riot police.

He said the specific photo is from a poster of the movie Invasion U.S.A., in which Norris' character is pitted against communists from Cuba during the Cold War. Dupuis-Dri said he believes the police officers during the G7 sawthemselves in Norris' role.

Quebec City police would not comment on the complaint.

Amnesty International and theQuebec nonprofit, Liguedesdroitsetliberts, also denounced police behaviour during the G7 Summit for being excessive and intimidating.

Because the human rights groups filed their report in September, Dupuis-Dri said he did not think he needed to broaden his complaint, but instead focused on the Chuck Norris photo.

"My complaint is really about this specific case and these specific police officers who were in the minivan," Dupuis-Dri said.

He said he believes anyone in his situation would make the same choice, and that it is the role of citizens to call out unethical police behaviour.