Five Metropolitan Police officers will appear at a gross misconduct hearing today over the stop-and-search of athlete Bianca Williams in July 2020.
Former Met Police superintendent Nusrit Mehtab said on Monday that the stop was evidence of "systemic racism".
"This could have been resolved in 2020, but actually it wasn’t… But there is systemic racism, institutional racism, it’s the processes and the systems. Not every single officer is a racist, that’s not what this is about."The Met said the search was carried out by officers patrolling the area in response to an increase in violence involving weapons.
The Met's professional conduct body said there was no case to answer. The force turned the case over to the police watchdog the independent office for police conduct . The IOPC said they were under investigation for gross misconduct in July 2021. It was announced they were to face a hearing in January this year.
"They took me away from my son. That hurts more than anything," she told Nick, recalling the moment outside her home when officers pulled her and her partner Ricardo out of the family car, handcuffing them, and telling them they could smell cannabis.
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