Bennett is now so frightened that she has installed cameras in her car. She said: “I feel I have to protect myself from the police more than anything else as a black person in London.”Really?!
Is it the police stabbing black youths on the streets, then, or is it other black youths?
Are the police carrying out vicious muggings and rapes, or is it people who are the same colour as her?
All the police are doing is their job. And facing the usual battle from people who think they shouldn't have to comply.
When Bennett refuses to wind down the window or get out, and later says she is calling a lawyer to check the search is legal “because this is what you’re doing to black people”, he replies: “You’re really starting to annoy me.”You're not the only one, chum!
She insists: “I don’t know what I’ve done wrong.” Within a minute, the footage shows, he threatens: “Open the door or the windows are going to go in.” Six minutes later he and a colleague pulled her from the car, according to the police report.
An official police investigation found no wrongdoing on the part of officers.Quite so. What are the police supposed to do when someone objects to being stopped? Just shrug and say 'OK then'?
When police officers stopped Neomi Bennett late at night, they did not know anything about her – including that she had been awarded a British Empire Medal for services to nursing, and invited to Downing Street in recognition of her work. In her opinion, they simply saw a black woman sitting in a car...Quite so, again. Are BEM holders sacrosanct, and people who have visited 10 Downing Street to be considered off limits? In a country where a sitting MP was a wrong 'un with a criminal record?
Now she intends to bring a civil claim against the Metropolitan police for wrongful arrest, assault, battery, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution.Of course she does. She sees the compo train rollin', she ridin'!
She believes her experience illustrates the challenges faced by black people once they are in the justice system. She was found guilty at Wimbledon magistrates court in September of resisting/obstructing a constable and says she worried about bringing up racism to an all-white bench.
“Even in court I never once said: ‘This is because I’m a black person,’ for fear of them thinking: she’s got a chip on her shoulder.”Now, who'd think that?
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You are ENTIRELY wrong to publish such a highly prejudicial 'assessment' of an unecessarily distressing and bullying confrontation by police. A repetitious and disrespectul reference to a very decent and talented lady as 'Bennett', speaks for itself.
The issue here is why the hell taxpayers are funding cowardly bullies. The sort of craven thugs who would eject women and children from a lifeboat to save their own worthless hides.
Well, MTG, you are either a master of hyperbole or a complete tosser.
There have been occurrences of the police being unnecessarily rough and heavy handed with people who were complying fully with their instructions and not resisting in any way. This was not one of those cases, she was told to get out of her car and she refused. It is a shame that she didn't ask the 'is it cos I'm black?' question in court although she probably wouldn't like the answer.
Yes, but why did they stop her in the first place? Was there a particular reason?
I have sympathy with the woman as too often police officers are high handed instead of being polite and respectful as they should be, yet there's a couple of things I would like to know.
Did the police explain why Bennett had been stopped and the reason to search her?
Why they chose her?
What they were looking for?
The law under which Bennett was stopped?
If the police did all this, Bennett had no reason not to comply. If they didn't do this then Bennett has a case. If the officers involved have had no action taken against them then it is presumed they did everything by the book which leads me to believe that the media are reporting the 'poor little black woman' story against 'racist' police.
Whichever way it is, this story has given drug dealers, burglars and the like a good idea to not comply with police.
I would like to see more accurate reporting by the media on this.
Anonymous at 12;11. It's definitely your second guess.
Jaded
If they think they are not being filmed, plod will smash their way into your car to remove you if have a mind to break the glass as well as the Law.
Which was demonstrated in the case of Robert Clive Whatley, a frail septuagenarian. The police chased him (he didn’t know he was being chased) and when he stopped they leapt onto his Range Rover bonnet, smashed in the windscreen and dragged him out through it.
Weirdly, the bullying bastard who broke the windows and dragged him out, won compensation of £400,000 later on.
See the youtube channel disi4h3. This guy actually had a complaint UPHELD against the Manchester police. A matter which caused the Manchester police to harass and target him even more. That's the plod I know!
They don't need a reason. Anyone driving a car on a road can be stopped.
RTA 1988 Section 163.
If she had done what she had been asked to do in the first place then none of this would have happened. But the more the media highlight stories like this with only one side of the argument then more people will try it on. Eventually no black person will ever be stopped in case we lose our jobs. Then you lot will get the society you deserve.
Jaded
@ Anon 12:11
I smell a sweaty, food-stained uniform on a yellow, regulation-sized belly.
Soon it will be impossible to enforce the law on any part of society other than those that are clearly white Brits. That's what I call real justice! I am white and I have been stopped a few times by the police. I found them firm but polite and within a few minutes I was back on my way with no problems, but then I probably passed the attitude test.
"If she had done what she had been asked to do in the first place then none of this would have happened."
You do realise the police have no power to demand people get out of their cars when stopped, unless they have some suspicion a crime has been committed? That when a policeman 'asks' a driver to get out of his vehicle he is under no obligation to do so? This is the trouble with police, they are power mad. Anyone who exercises their legal rights is taken to be 'not respecting' them and immediately is targeted for retaliation, usually a trumped up charge of a 'public order offence'. Its why more and more law abiding people hate the police, they have become power mad bullies.
On this occasion a the judge thinks they did. So? Maybe the press have just failed to report it for usual reasons. How gullible are some of you?
i'm getting so embarrassed about the way my force is acting that when I'm asked my profession I'd rather say "environmental scientist from Huddersfield" than police officer.
Jaded
You can be pretty sure that most Environmental Scientists would spot an imposter faster than you could write 'educatid'.
You really should stop winding up MTG, Jaded. He's an easy target, I know...but it's cruel!
Up early this morning Melvin? Another busy night on "shed-watch" duties in case the lawnmower gang of Huddersfield come back for your rake and hoe?
Jaded
Jaded, She's no hoe. She's a lovely woman. Very friendly, so I'm told, but still lovely.
In exchange for the promise to cease bringing back the stick in her mouth, I wish to extol WC Jaded's anonymous replies to herself. Yes, they are even funnier than the Ricky Gervais' jokes 'what he wrote'.
"...a very decent and talented lady ..."
Where? I don't see one. I see an entitled little upstart with the usual two chips on her shoulders...
"It is a shame that she didn't ask the 'is it cos I'm black?' question in court although she probably wouldn't like the answer."
No, she definitely wouldn't!
"If they think they are not being filmed, plod will smash their way into your car to remove you..."
And I'm fine with that, since if I were requested to get out of the car, I'd do it.
"But the more the media highlight stories like this with only one side of the argument then more people will try it on."
Hence all the 'I can't breathe!' shouts...
"Soon it will be impossible to enforce the law on any part of society other than those that are clearly white Brits. "
Working, I dare say, as intended!
"You do realise the police have no power to demand people get out of their cars when stopped, unless they have some suspicion a crime has been committed?"
Which in this case, they clearly did.
Interesting to read a racist account of what happened to me from a clearly racist blogger. One who knows nothing about the outcome of the case. This lady makes the assertion that I should be accountable for all crimes committed by people with the same colour skin as me. WOW “or is it people who are the same colour as her”
If she cant see anything wrong with a police officer who gets irritated by an innocent person not following his unlawful instruction and then locking up that same person for nothing then unfortunately, she is part of the bigger problem.
She lacks empathy and the racism runs so deep through her blood that she can’t acknowledge or recognise it when others have raised it to her as an issue.
She can mock me from afar in her blog but remember that one day someone who looks like me may tend to her when she is sick, someone that looks like me may even save her life. I very much doubt she will express these views to a black persons face because she’s a coward and most racist trolls behave this way.
Thanks to the lovely person who sent the kind message to me via social media about this post. You was right, it’s 100% racist. Anyway... We will continue our fight till we maintain Equality for all Black people. BLM
What is it, pray, I don't understand about the outcome of the case? Other than, you lost?
"This lady makes the assertion that I should be accountable for all crimes committed by people with the same colour skin as me...."
Perhaps the person who 'pointed this post out to you' should have explained it to you as well, since nowhere do I say that. Gosh.
Pretty poor reading comprehension for a nurse. I guess that's how all those overdoses happen in hospitals, eh?
"If she cant see anything wrong with a police officer who gets irritated by an innocent person not following his unlawful instruction ..."
But it wasn't unlawful, was it?
"We will continue our fight till we maintain Equality for all Black people."
You have it already. Not anyone else's fault if you can't see that.
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