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Met police to hand in weapons and stop killing black Britons

The Met have settled with two young black key workers, arrested during lockdown outside their home while attempting to get in their car and drive to work in a supermarket. The officers claimed they looked like drug dealers.

One officer involved in the stops, Paul Hefford, was a key player in a hate message group, and was dismissed from the Met in July 2022, two years after the stop. A Met disciplinary panel found the group contained numerous “racist and discriminatory” messages, which were anti-black, anti-Muslim, some abusing Meghan Markle, and that Hefford was the second-most frequent poster to the chat group containing police officers.

The Met deputy assistant commissioner, Bas Javid, said: “...we did not accept the men were stopped and searched because of the colour of their skin.”

Jimmy Hill.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/202...brothers-searched-and-handcuffed-outside-home
 
cutting42 said:
Not heard Jimmy Hill for a very very long time.
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I always preferred:

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Met police illegally filmed children as young as 10 at climate protest
Big Brother Watch’s FoI request shows force rebuked by watchdog for recording 2019 school strike action in London

"The previously unseen papers reveal the Metropolitan police were rebuked by the information commissioner’s office (ICO) for video surveillance of the March 2019 protest, which was attended by up to 10,000 children and young people.

Ruling the data gathering unlawful, the watchdog said the force had failed to consider the privacy rights of the children at the protest, and had not considered their entitlement to added data protections in light of their age.

The reprimand was issued in 2020 but came to light only after a freedom of information request by the civil rights campaign group Big Brother Watch, which had made a complaint about the surveillance."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ed-children-as-young-as-10-at-climate-protest
 
gavreid said:
Met police illegally filmed children as young as 10 at climate protest
Big Brother Watch’s FoI request shows force rebuked by watchdog for recording 2019 school strike action in London

"The previously unseen papers reveal the Metropolitan police were rebuked by the information commissioner’s office (ICO) for video surveillance of the March 2019 protest, which was attended by up to 10,000 children and young people.

Ruling the data gathering unlawful, the watchdog said the force had failed to consider the privacy rights of the children at the protest, and had not considered their entitlement to added data protections in light of their age.

The reprimand was issued in 2020 but came to light only after a freedom of information request by the civil rights campaign group Big Brother Watch, which had made a complaint about the surveillance."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ed-children-as-young-as-10-at-climate-protest
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'Unlawful' of course must not be taken to mean anyone was arrested or anything, but nice to know their files are in order.
 
South Yorkshire police have admitted that officers may have been shown the body of Christopher Alder, a former paratrooper who died in police custody, in a mortuary as part of their routine training years after he was supposed to have been buried.

Alder, an ex-Parachute Regiment soldier, choked to death while handcuffed and lying face down on the floor of a Hull police station on 1 April 1998. CCTV footage showed officers laughing, joking and making monkey noises while he lay unconscious in a pool of blood. It was more than 10 minutes before police went to his aid.

An inquest found he was unlawfully killed but no one has been held accountable for his death, nor for the disclosure in 2011 that his family had been given the wrong body to bury and had actually buried Grace Kamara, 77, rather than Alder.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...been-shown-to-trainees-yorkshire-police-admit
 
gavreid said:
South Yorkshire police have admitted that officers may have been shown the body of Christopher Alder, a former paratrooper who died in police custody, in a mortuary as part of their routine training years after he was supposed to have been buried.

Alder, an ex-Parachute Regiment soldier, choked to death while handcuffed and lying face down on the floor of a Hull police station on 1 April 1998. CCTV footage showed officers laughing, joking and making monkey noises while he lay unconscious in a pool of blood. It was more than 10 minutes before police went to his aid.

An inquest found he was unlawfully killed but no one has been held accountable for his death, nor for the disclosure in 2011 that his family had been given the wrong body to bury and had actually buried Grace Kamara, 77, rather than Alder.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...been-shown-to-trainees-yorkshire-police-admit
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In December 2004 four of the five police officers were granted early retirement on stress-related medical grounds and received lump-sum compensation payments of between £44,000 and £66,000 as well as pensions. The officers all declined requests to take part in the IPCC inquiry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Christopher_Alder
 
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