Met police refers itself to police watchdog over stop-and-search of athletes’ car
That was quick.
This Writer only published Vox Political‘s story about the Metropolitan police targeting black athletes Ricardo dos Santos, Bianca Williams and their three-month-old baby for a stop/search a couple of hours ago, and already the case has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct!
If you want something to happen, get me to write about it.
But seriously…
It actually took several days and the threat of a court case for this matter to be referred to the IOPC, and This Writer is concerned that we’ll see another stitch-up.
The IOPC blotted its copy book with its whitewashing of the relationship between Boris Johnson and Jennifer Arcuri, and I fear that any investigation of this case will go the same way.
It occur to me that, if the IOPC – and the police in general – want us to accept any verdict on this, we’ll have to see all the evidence when the report comes in.
That seems the best way to ensure fairness. Don’t you agree?
The Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the police watchdog over the actions of its officers in a stop and search involving athlete Bianca Williams.
The 26-year-old Team GB sprinter was dragged from the vehicle and handcuffed in Maida Vale, West London on Saturday along with partner Ricardo dos Santos, a Portuguese 400m runner, in front of their three month-old-son.
The athlete has since accused the Met of racial profiling – telling LBC radio she believes they were stopped because the car is all black and her partner is a black man. “There is no other reason,” she added.
Now the force has said it will voluntarily refer itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC)
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As a born and raised Londoner the feedback I’m getting from the ‘peeps on the streets’ is that if the Met Plod don’t start winding their necks back in a bit they’re going to get another Brixton 81, Broadwater Farm 85 or Tottenham 2011 on their hands.
People are really started to get p*ssed off with them now, and the anger slowly building up is not exclusively within only the black and Asian demographic either, it’s universal resentment across the board.