Black London firefighter beaten, tazed and charged for offering assistance to cops had his complaint
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[quote]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 "Fuck 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 fucking cameras off"). Then he was tazed, without warning (a fact the officer who shot him does not contest).Then it got worse. The police then arrested Kennedy-Macfoy and asked the prosecution service to prosecute him, which would have cost him his job if they'd been successful. When he complained, the police buried his paperwork and did not refer it to the independent complaints commission (they say it was an oversight). The firefighter says he only complained because the police sought to prosecute him, saying that he would have settled for an apology otherwise because "People make mistakes; you've got good cops and bad cops." When his case went to trial, several police gave testimony against him.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.Kennedy-Macfoy's solicitor, Shamik Dutta, of Bhatt Murphy solicitors, voiced concerns at his client's allegations, saying: "The question many people are bound to ask is why an off-duty firefighter, wearing a pinstriped suit and offering assistance to the police, should have been dragged from his car, shot with a Taser, locked up for many hours and then prosecuted for an offence he did not commit by the very officers he was trying to help.
"Our client now expects a comprehensive investigation which examines what role his race has had in the horrific events he has been forced to suffer."[/quote]
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I hope that cop get's what's coming to him, cunt face bastard.
That's rough, poor guy was just trying to help
Sometimes I almost wish to be black for a day. Just try it, to experience what it's like to be not just judged but even openly hated at the first sight.
I know I probably couldn't take it, tho.
The [i]tenth[/i] racism allegation in [i]three weeks[/i]!? Jesus Christ, London.
Inexcusable for the officers to act this way.
The first thing is kinda understandable given the situation.
The second incident however is retarded beyond belief.
2012 and we still have racists on this planet
My how humanity has evolved.
I can just imagine the police department being on fire, and the firemen only putting out flames that spread away from the building. One of the cops would run up to the firemen and yell "Why the hell aren't you putting the fire out!? Help me!"
Only for Edric to turn around and quip "That's funny, you didn't want help before. Fuck off, you prick."
Bad, yes. But it would probably feel so fucking good.
I'm assuming the department would be already be evacuated completely, of course.
And after this incident the Met will say "Look at us, we're not racist anymore!" until it will undoubtedly happen again.
The met are a fucking joke.
It's hard to believe how the met can fuck up this bad.
It's even harder to believe how they can do it consistently.
I thought america had worse cops, jeeze
[QUOTE=Karmah;35650260]I thought america had worse cops, jeeze[/QUOTE]
I was about to say the old 'not all cops are bad' but the met seem to be major fuck ups just about all the time.
[QUOTE=Karmah;35650260]I thought america had worse cops, jeeze[/QUOTE]
Yeah over here we also get huge racists
Who would've knew right?
Wait
we have tazers?
Fuck.
Police in Britain at least isn't throughoutly corrupted as opposed to America.
In Britain these types of occurrences are rare,in America an everyday sight.
That cop is fucking scum. The whole fact that this even happened is just amazing to me this would even happen, it's sad
[editline]20th April 2012[/editline]
Happens in US too, though
[QUOTE=znk666;35650472]In Britain these types of occurrences are rare,in America an everyday sight.[/QUOTE]
You'd be really, really surprised.
And they all stem from the fuckin' London Met.
London- the equality center of the world! If you're gay, it's oka- HEY YOU, STUPID NEGRO, WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?
[QUOTE=Ray-The-Sun;35650565]You'd be really, really surprised.
And they all stem from the fuckin' London Met.[/QUOTE]
The met is broken, it needs completely gutting and restaffing.
[QUOTE=znk666;35650472]Police in Britain at least isn't throughoutly corrupted as opposed to America.
In Britain these types of occurrences are rare,in America an everyday sight.[/QUOTE]
[quote]another set of awful racism allegations, the tenth in three weeks.[/quote]
'Rare' is sooner than I thought.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;35650045]Sometimes I almost wish to be black for a day. Just try it, to experience what it's like to be not just judged but even openly hated at the first sight.
I know I probably couldn't take it, tho.[/QUOTE]
does your country have some ludicrous racism problem because not everyone just sees black people and is like OH GOD BLACK DUDE SHIT HIDE YOUR FUCKING WALLETS
by the way there are certainly areas where you can find yourself being "hated on sight" for being white
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anyway this is seriously fucked up, there's no excuse for reacting like that
if this kind of thing is going on often, or at all, with little consequence to the officers who pulled that shit, the police system needs some serious fucking work
[editline]20th April 2012[/editline]
do people in the uk have the right to tape public police actions or not, because if so the cops telling the bystanders to cut their cameras off really just further confirms their real intentions
[QUOTE=Itachi_Crow;35650607]does your country have some ludicrous racism problem because not everyone just sees black people and is like OH GOD BLACK DUDE SHIT HIDE YOUR FUCKING WALLETS
[/QUOTE]
Nah, black people are too rare and they are usually western expats so they are most of the time better clothed and better behaving than the average people here.
We have gypsies who rather fulfill what you described, tho, so yes.
[quote]by the way there are certainly areas where you can find yourself being "hated on sight" for being white[/quote]
I am very well aware, but that's not really an equal position. The hatred towards the while, as far as I know, at least, in most places comes as form of reaction to the historical relationship between the races.
I wonder... [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_FouF7jQQU"]what would the world be without racism?[/URL]
Such a damn shame, why do things like this have to happen? firefighter was just trying to be help, and he gets treated like total shit. Everything would be easier if people just cooperated.
The cop better get sued for this shit
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;35650045]Sometimes I almost wish to be black for a day. Just try it, to experience what it's like to be not just judged but even openly hated at the first sight.
I know I probably couldn't take it, tho.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Like_Me[/url]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/52/Black_Like_Me.jpg/200px-Black_Like_Me.jpg[/img]
It's a worthwhile read..
[QUOTE=ghosevil;35652841][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Like_Me[/url]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/52/Black_Like_Me.jpg/200px-Black_Like_Me.jpg[/img]
It's a worthwhile read..[/QUOTE]
Yes, the 60s weren't a very jolly good time to be a black man in America, sadly.
Time to clean house.
Cops that tell people to not record them when they are doing official police work should lose their jobs.
Shit cops.
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