Comments on: Black teenager who was stopped-and-searched 50 times between 14 and 17 will sue London cops for harassment

By: llazy8

llazy8 — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:06:00 +0000

Yeah. Just the allegations themselves should sound alarms in the court system:

“. . . caused grazing and bruising to the officer’s knuckles.”

By: mrjawright

mrjawright — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:11:00 +0000

I don’t think it made it to PBS (where nearly everyone was introduced to British TV in the US in the days before cable). I’ve seen a few episodes. Now that you’ve reminded me, I may have to check Hulu and Netflix for it.

By: dainel

dainel — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:58:00 +0000

So what happens to the policeman who lied and gave false evidence. This was proven with the CCTV recording. Does he get the sack and go to jail?

By: Ari B.

Ari B. — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 01:09:00 +0000

Wow, good luck to him.

By: toyg

toyg — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 21:05:00 +0000

Not just there. Quite a few cases in Italy of recent… one kid died of “natural causes” after a policeman basically sat on his chest.

By: toyg

toyg — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 21:02:00 +0000

And rank they do, all right…

By: Stone_Monkey

Stone_Monkey — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:29:00 +0000

Who?

Ah, I see. I’m younger… And less white… And haven’t climbed all that many rocks…

By: Flashman

Flashman — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:08:00 +0000

Is this Johnny Dawes?

By: Stone_Monkey

Stone_Monkey — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:37:00 +0000

Things aren’t as bad as they were in the 80s, I guess. At least young black men aren’t regularly being beaten to death in cells and having it passed off at the inquest as “Heart Attack”. That made my teenage years scarier than they should have been, I’ll tell you.

By: millie fink

millie fink — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:16:00 +0000

wrong video? can i have my 1:30 back?

By: millie fink

millie fink — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:14:00 +0000

Oh I’m sure all sorts of black people would be more than happy to accommodate your “curiosity.”

(i.e., say what?)

By: millie fink

millie fink — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:08:00 +0000

What makes you think Erik doesn’t?

By: Hakan Koseoglu

Hakan Koseoglu — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 12:13:00 +0000

Didn’t know the Met answered to US and specifically its President. Hang on, that explains a thing or two about what’s going on around Knightsbridge these days.

By: Theranthrope

Theranthrope — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:55:00 +0000

Sometimes, I wish that the same people who can quote Monty Python’s Flying Circus chapter-and-verse, could AT THE VERY LEAST watch the Young Ones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z55mLS-qWnc

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:43:00 +0000

This is the Tory heartland of Britain, Prime Ministerial safe seat territory. Ted Heath was my MP as a kid. I do not know if racism is newsworthy there, which might explain a lot.

By: mobobo

mobobo — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 09:48:00 +0000

“The case went to court, but then collapsed when the footage showed that the teenager “[lay] there like a dead fish” during the search, and did not roll over or spit, as was alleged by the constable.”

WTF!
How does crap like this even get before a judge? And when it does why doesn’t the judge level punitive charges against all who allow it to waste court time – the Officer leveling the charge, his superiors for allowing it to go through, and his counsel for not telling them all to stop acting like malevolent racist retards.

Good on the bloke for taking the Met to court in return – I hope he gets a judge whose head isn’t firmly planted in their own arse.

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 09:07:00 +0000

It can be perfectly acceptable circumstantial but not direct evidence without the existence of a lit spliff. The point is Mr Fucking Plod maliciously conflates or confuses circumstantial and direct evidence and is ignorant of probability.

By: vinculture

vinculture — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:51:00 +0000

You could say that a cigarette lighter is ‘drug paraphernalia’ but it doesn’t make it so. His real offence was not being white in the opinion of this PC it would seem.

By: ldobe

ldobe — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:51:00 +0000

I can’t stand the cardboard, so I taught myself the conical roll. Which ends up making the cigarette look like a joint anyway. And nobody’s bothered me about taking out what looks like a joint behind my ear, and lighting up wherever I think it’s legal to smoke tobacco (I live in Washington State, no public smoking, and also no smoking closer than 25 Feet to any publicly accessible doorway.)

Of course, it could be that I’m white, and in Western Washington people don’t really seem to mind pot smoking. Recreational use decriminalization is going on the ballot in November.

By: Jerry Glover

Jerry Glover — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:49:00 +0000

Skip the “dark-skinned” bit and just consider the Met. ” urban, dangerous looking male”. Time to cash on stereotypes!

Another TV police series perhaps?

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:40:00 +0000

The size or weight of the rolling papers is not specified. There are degrees of suspicion in identifying drug paraphernalia. Skin colour is not one of them.

By: ldobe

ldobe — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:35:00 +0000

This quote has got to be 90% of traffic stops in the midwest:
” He’s being held in the station for….Possesion of curly black hair and thick lips”

By: vinculture

vinculture — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:25:00 +0000

I should perhaps point out that the possession of rolling papers and ‘torn up cardboard’ proves nothing. I used both to roll my own tobacco – not cannabis – cigarettes when I smoked. Most RYO (roll-your-own) tobacco smokers use the same method.

By: jbond

jbond — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 07:58:00 +0000

A black teenager’s view of the police

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdQYX93_13U

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 07:10:00 +0000

If you link to a video with a time marker, Disqus will embed the video without the time marker. And you can’t link to a video without Disqus auto-embedding it. I’ve complained; they don’t give a shit. The link will still take you to the correct time.

By: Ian Wood

Ian Wood — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 06:41:00 +0000

I can’t tell whether YouTube is going to hit the #t=00m35s mark correctly–that is, without an advertisement–for everyone or not, and if I can’t guarantee the timing of the Relevant Funny Bit, I’m not going to post it.

That was my intention, anyway. But Disqus isn’t letting me delete the video preview. A vast, steaming pile of failure, that’s what I’ve got here. A pointless waste of time. Wretched waves of self-loathing. Damn it all to hell forever.

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 06:10:00 +0000

No one could afford the liability insurance.

By: futnuh

futnuh — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 05:59:00 +0000

As a curious white male, I would be really interested in a day-long chaperoned “Black Like Me” experience. Not with any expectation of fun, mind you, rather as a way to experience first-hand the daily reality of non-whites in western society.

By: copperwatt

copperwatt — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 04:44:00 +0000

Studies show that by far the largest risk factor for blackness is the having of black parents. *The more you know….*

By: J. Brad Hicks

J. Brad Hicks — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 04:32:00 +0000

Don’t you understand that this can’t possibly be about race, because the election of Barack Obama proved that … wait, no, I got nothing.