A man carries bags of groceries while walking through Metropolis at Metrotown shopping mall, on April 12, 2020. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
A B.C. judge has awarded $1.8 million to a teen wrongfully detained and injured at a Burnaby shopping mall in 2019, finding that security guards used excessive force.
The B.C. Supreme Court ruling found that the security guards at the Metropolis at Metrotown in Burnaby had detained the 18-year-old—a transgender male who identified as female at the time—on the mistaken belief the teen was still subject to a mall ban issued months earlier for climbing over a security barrier.
