Right, I get off the bus today and see two cops with a young black man who they need to speak to.
Enter, stage left, (exiting the bus just like me) two black men and a woman who may have been their mother.
Mom said, “they’re looking for a black man”
One of the men said, “I thought they were coming after me”.
I turned around and said, “ohh, what a relief, I thought they were after me”.
Unimpressed, the trio turned around to approach the police who were having an unremarkable chat with the young man. I’m sure it’s always helpful to have the uninformed question your every move as you try to do your job.
That brings me to this little gem
A Metropolitan police officer was found not guilty today of racially abusing two teenagers.
PC Mark Jones, 42, a member of the force’s Territorial Support Group, was accused of subjecting the youths to a physical and verbal attack while on patrol in a marked police van in west London in June 2007.
It was alleged that during the incident he accused one 16-year-old Kuwaiti of “robbing people while British soldiers are getting killed in Iraq”.
But Jones denied any wrongdoing in connection with the incident and the jury of five men and seven women at Kingston crown court cleared him of two charges of racially aggravated common assault following the three-week trial.
Jones and four colleagues, PC Neil Brown, 33, Sergeant William Wilson, 52, PC Steven White, 31, and PC Giles Kitchener, 31, who stood trial alongside him, were also found not guilty of misfeasance in public office.
The jury spent five hours deliberating before clearing all the officers.
None of the officers showed any emotion as the verdicts were read out.
During the trial, the court heard the officer was travelling with colleagues from London’s Paddington Green police station to patrol Lambeth during the evening rush hour when officers spotted a group of youths allegedly mouthing obscenities at them.
When they came to a stop, three teenagers were allegedly taken into the van one by one and subjected to taunts.
“Whistle blower” PC Amechi Onwugbonu, who had been in the van, gave evidence against Jones during the trial.
He said the officer swore at one teenager, Omar Mohidin, who was 16 at the time, before kicking him off the carrier.
He accused him of walking over another youth, Ahmed Hegazy, when he lay handcuffed on the floor of the vehicle.
He said a third teenager, Basil Khan, was brought onto the van before he was sworn at, punched, kneed and slapped in the face.
But Jones consistently denied acting in an unprofessional manner and PC Onwugbonu later admitted that he and Jones were “not best buddies”.
To PC Onwugbonu and the three jackasses at the bus stop today, I salute you for doing your bit to foster good race relations with your utterly spurious accusations.
I suggest the Metropolitan Police kit every officer with a San Jose “ear video camera” and bring an end to this bullshit.
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While having no connection to Stoke Newington I am aware of, I nevertheless am moved to give major props to Mohammad Sohail of Long Island, New York.
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