I know the story from seeing it last year. The allegation against him was simply for parking illegally. And even that is disputed. And this is what the cops resorted to.If you google his name you can find out the details.Youness Bentahar. Apparently he was asked 17 times to move his car, or produce his license. Then a 5 stage warning before they tried to arrest him. So it looks as though there were loads of opportunities for him to stop this escalating without any drama. I’m sure there are racists cops in the Uk but I don’t think this is a great example. Tweeting that today, without context, is pure rabble-rousing.
I dont agree that this level of violence is warranted. They can ask him 100 times before they descend to this level of violence. I wonder if it happened to you, if you'd agree it was OK.
I think it's a very good example of racist police brutality, as does Mr Bentahar lawyer and supporters so we'll have to agree to disagree.
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