According to The Guardian, the Metropolitan police of London would be in the viewfinder after the publication of two videos of the arrest.
Two incidents have put the police in London under the spotlight. The Metropolitan police is under pressure after the publication of a video published by The Guardian showing two officers call a black man in Hackney, in the east of the british capital. The two officers are filmed by a passer-by in the process of putting to-earth individual 18 years of age and give him a knee in the face while he screams “I do not resist”, “I did nothing”.
The young man was biking with two other youths when he was arrested on 22 April to 21 hours. According to the police, he was arrested when he refused to obey the orders of the police officers who were carrying out patrols in the area.
“An 18 year old man has been arrested for the purposes of a search for weapons,” said a spokesman quoted by The Guardian. “He was handcuffed and placed in the soil in order to mitigate any potential problem in case of presence of a weapon. After the end of the research, and no weapon has been found and the man was allowed to leave. He has not been arrested,” he added.
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After a complaint by a witness of the scene, the members of the police are in the process of assessing the need to open an investigation or not. “Almost no one was in the street because of the containment and all of a sudden, an unmarked police car stops, grabs the child from his BMX and when I started to leave, another car arrived, and one officer said : ‘We have’. It looked violent and aggressive. I was expecting that this is in response to a serious crime,” said a witness to the media in the uk.
“I can’t breathe”
The Independent Office for Police Conduct, the “guard dogs” of the british police must also investigate another incident which took place at Greenwich on the 22nd may last. It is the apprehension of Jade, Xavier, black, 35 years, also filmed. While it is immobilized by the police, the latter receives a stream of tear gas in the face.
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“I felt an injustice and a threat to my life. The way I was treated was despicable” he told the Guardian. “I wasn’t doing anything wrong, and I had nothing to hide. My cell phone was in the car and I wanted to retrieve it to save the detention of my brother. I told them ‘I can’t breathe’ and ‘please don’t kill me’. I was on the ground with a lot of pressure on me. I said sorry – I don’t know why – and I asked them to stop, he added. I was doing what they asked me to do. They had me first kneeling when I was standing up, and then they hit me while I was on the ground.”
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“The video of an arrest where force is used will of course comments and conversations within the local community. All police officers are fully aware that we will hold them to account for their actions,” responded Rob Atkin of the Metropolitan police, quoted by The Guardian.
