UK police racial abuse scandal deepens

Recorded CCTV footage has shown a British police officer kicking a 15-year-old black teenager to the ground and kneeing him, reported the Guardian.

The revelations come as video recorded by a 21-year-old black man showed that he was subjected to racist insult as the police officers stopped his car and arrested him during the unprecedented unrest which swept across Britain in August.

“The problem with you is you will always be a nigger, yeah? That’s your problem, yeah,” a policeman told the 21-year-old.

Both events took place on 11 August last year within hours from each other as the British police was trying to tackle the unprecedented unrest triggered by the police’s shooting of an unarmed black man, Mark Duggan.

29-year-old Duggan was shot dead on 4 August by the British police in Tottenham, North East London. The Metropolitan police said that Duggan was armed and had fired a bullet which lodged in a radio worn by one of the officers when they shot him dead.

However, later in November, forensic evidence showed that Duggan was not carrying a weapon and the Metropolitan police had just misled the public.

Writing for the Guardian, David Gilbertson, a former senior officer at Scotland Yard, said: “Britain’s police are at war with the people.”

“Police officers are increasingly trained to see the community as the enemy. They’ve forgotten that they are there to serve us,” added Gilbertson.

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