MP stopped by police in London for ‘driving around whilst black’
Dawn Butler: she’s proved many times that she is an MP who actually cares about her constituents’ lives – but that won’t stop her being victimised by Metropolitan police.
Almost exactly a month after two black athletes were stopped and handcuffed by Metropolitan police, Brent MP Dawn Butler has suffered the same humiliation. For the same reason?
Ms Butler, a Labour MP, was stopped while travelling as a passenger with a friend, who is also black.
Police who stopped her said the car was registered in North Yorkshire – but changed their tune after they realised who they had pulled over, and said they had input the licence plate into their system incorrectly.
A likely story!
This was the third time Ms Butler has been stopped and searched by police since she became a member of Parliament. She described it in the video she took of the incident as follows:
It’s like you cannot drive around and enjoy a Sunday afternoon whilst black.
Her friend, who was driving, has been stopped “regularly”, according to the Guardian‘s report. In that case, Met police officers should have got the hang of tapping his plate number into their system (I would have thought).
On July 8, athletes Ricardo dos Santos and Bianca Williams were stopped and handcuffed while their three-month-old son was left in the car.
No social distancing procedures were followed in that incident and it seems unlikely that any were employed in that involving Ms Butler.
According to the Guardian,
Another officer, a woman, had “inflamed the situation” by saying tinted rear windows on the car could be illegal.
How interesting that Met officers are still using this hoary old chestnut after being called out on it after the July incident – and on previous occasions, when the tints were all found to be entirely legal.
In this case
The law about tinting on windows applies only to the windscreen and front windows.
In fairness, the Met response to Ms Butler’s report of the incident has been much more reasonable than to the athletes.
Is that because, in addition to being black, she is a member of Parlament?
Source: Labour MP Dawn Butler stopped by police in London | UK news | The Guardian
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Metropolitan police have the support of their fascist tory government so I do not see this fake police force ceasing their war on black women and men!! Nothing will change until the fake independent police complaints authority becomes independent and not a tool of the racist women hating metropolitan police force!