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29-06-2020, 04:16 PM | #1 | |||
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threatened with Tasers during charity bike ride The Metropolitan Police say the incident is being investigated and that the complaint is being taken seriously.] https://news.sky.com/story/black-fat...icion-12017127 [Andrew Boateng and son Huugo were out cycling along the River Lea in Tottenham, north London, when the incident happened. Mr Boateng told Sky News that his 13-year-old son rode a few metres out in front of him when a plain-clothed officer appeared out of nowhere and grabbed him from his bike. Startled and assuming he was being mugged, the teenager leapt in fright before being tackled to the ground - laying helpless as the officer pointed a Taser at him, shouting and threatening to deploy it.] That officer made a mistake must have thought he was a Criminal The Dad shouting at the officer, Last edited by arista; 29-06-2020 at 04:17 PM. |
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29-06-2020, 04:27 PM | #2 | |||
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Cycling while black
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29-06-2020, 05:15 PM | #3 | |||
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29-06-2020, 05:19 PM | #4 | |||
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A black person committing a crime doesn’t give the police the right to grab and threaten any black person they see
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29-06-2020, 05:28 PM | #5 | |||
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29-06-2020, 05:30 PM | #6 | |||
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out cycling along the River Lea in Tottenham, north London, when the incident happened. Mr Boateng told Sky News that his 13-year-old son rode a few metres out in front of him when a plain-clothed officer appeared out of nowhere and grabbed him from his bike. Startled and assuming he was being mugged, the teenager leapt in fright before being tackled to the ground - laying helpless as the officer pointed a Taser at him, shouting and threatening to deploy it.
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29-06-2020, 05:44 PM | #7 | |||
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So you think the officer was just hiding in the bushes waiting for a young 13 year old boy riding a bike to jump out on....or do you think the officer may have had a description of someone on a bike having committed a crime and possibly armed... Of course it’s unfortunate for the young boy as he was innocent but the police have a tough job, particularly in London. |
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29-06-2020, 05:50 PM | #8 | |||
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29-06-2020, 05:54 PM | #9 | |||
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So this something wrong... is this the stabbing that’s been mentioned? |
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29-06-2020, 06:05 PM | #10 | |||
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.....hmmm probably. Let me tell you if you and your partner/child were in the vicinity and an officer apprehended someone in front of you that COULD have had a knife and stabbed you or those dearest to you....I bet you wouldn’t mind the unfortunate misidentification.The police are trying to do a difficult job...they are trying to protect the innocent public against a lot of knife crime in the city. |
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29-06-2020, 06:08 PM | #11 | |||
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29-06-2020, 06:13 PM | #12 | |||
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The only info they had from the stabbed victim was that it was an IC male on a bike, so they didn't have a lot to go on, obviously it sucks but if they let them go and they were the assailants then they would also be in the doggy do do...so its not easy to walk the right line in these situations, and its easy for us standing by to judge what should be done
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29-06-2020, 06:26 PM | #13 | |||
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29-06-2020, 06:47 PM | #14 | |||
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Were they tasered?....or just threatened with a taser? |
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29-06-2020, 06:56 PM | #15 | |||
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isnt it odd how some are totally ok with living in a police state?....
Where you can be grabbed and forcibly detained and threatened with violence without question? Where are civil liberties?... dont they exist anymore? :/
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29-06-2020, 07:07 PM | #16 | |||
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...poor child...
“The 13-year-old told the Observer: “I’d turned around to see if my dad had caught up behind me, and suddenly this man came out of nowhere. He was crazy angry and shouting. I got scared because I thought he might be mugging me or trying to give me corona so I ran, but there was nowhere to go but in the bushes.” “The Boatengs, who live in Tottenham, say they were shocked and humiliated by the experience. Huugo suffered lacerations to his face and bruises on his legs, and spent that night sleeping on his parents’ bedroom floor, anxious not to be alone.“ |
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29-06-2020, 07:10 PM | #17 | |||
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29-06-2020, 07:10 PM | #18 | |||
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No they weren't tasered
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29-06-2020, 07:11 PM | #19 | |||
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Their job is so hard, how are they supposed to do their job if they’re not allowed to assault and threaten children because they happen to be black, poor souls
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29-06-2020, 07:15 PM | #20 | |||
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Can I ask, has your son and his Dad ever been threatened with tazers? Just out of curiosity. Imagine how traumatic that would be for any 13 year old but they were only threatened so
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29-06-2020, 07:17 PM | #21 | |||
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I already said is sucked..? of course it was traumatic, it was also traumatic for the stabbed victim, I guess it would be nice for him to know his attacker had been caught as well
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29-06-2020, 07:18 PM | #22 | |||
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But they haven’t been caught.. all this cop did was assault and traumatise an innocent child because he’s black
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29-06-2020, 07:19 PM | #23 | |||
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Even more laughable trying to pivot to the stabbed victim. You forget - THEY HAD THE WRONG GUY.
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29-06-2020, 08:11 PM | #24 | |||
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Oh please... dont you know its ok to assault and traumatise black kids if someone was stabbed!?
Who has time for actual investigations and police work?, just snatch up a bunch of black lads and hope for the best.
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29-06-2020, 08:31 PM | #25 | ||
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This father and son are victims, why are some people in this topic doing everything they can to avoid saying it?
They were attacked by the police because they were black, it's pretty undeniable. They were looking for a black suspect and decided any old black person would do. Going on about the stabbing victim isn't going to change or lessen the fact that these two people were victims of police brutality. Saying 'it sucks for them' is dismissive and it's downplaying the facts. |
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