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hate-a-black season is definately back in the Met


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London's Metropolitan police are at the centre of another set of awful racism allegations, the tenth in three weeks. Edric Kennedy-Macfoy is a black London fireman who trained as a police constable. While coming home late one night, dressed in a suit, he stopped to offer assistance to a policeman after seeing a young black man throw a rock at the officer's van. Before he could speak, he says the officer in the van shouted "f*ck off you prick" at him. He moved on to a line of police officers who were facing a group of unruly young people to offer his assistance to them and to complain about the abuse from the van-driver. Before he could speak to them, he says the officers shouted abuse at him, then pulled him bodily out of his car through the window. He says he showed the officers his empty hands and calmly repeated that he was a fireman offering assistance. He says the police demanded that nearby people stop recording the skirmish with their phones ("Turn those f*ck*ng cameras off"). Then he was tazed, without warning (a fact the officer who shot him does not contest).
He says that he has a history of being pulled over by the police while driving his Audi ("Oh, you know, loads of these cars get stolen, so we just need to check you are who you say you are, blah blah blah") but that when his white co-worker borrows his car, he doesn't get pulled over.

whats the reason this time haze or any other defend-a-daemons?

perhaps it was his hoody,? oh wait..

or he was part of a known 'gang'

maybe the officers were provoked and whats being reported was taken out of context?

its trending on twitter

http://boingboing.net/2012/04/19/black-london-firefighter-beate.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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A black firefighter who's also trained as a constable

in a suit -pulled out of his car window and tazed

only crime was to offer his assistance

even after being pulled out his car still remained calm and cooperative

and all that'll happen is the offending officer will get a slap on the wrist

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