A Metropolitan Police officer has been jailed for breaking a black man’s knee in front of his children after they had la...
A Metropolitan Police officer has been jailed for breaking a black man’s knee in front of his children after they had laid flowers on their mother’s grave. PC Charlie Harrison, 39, was sentenced to two years and three months in prison at Southwark Crown Court on Monday after being found guilty of causing grevious bodily harm (GBH). Mr Abrahams was leaving a cemetery with his children, having laid flowers on their mother’s grave on New Year’s Eve, 2018, according to reports. Harrison pulled over in an unmarked patrol car, Southwark Crown Court heard. in plain clothes, with the intention of conducting a police stop. The officer then used a “leg sweep” on Mr Abrahams, knocking him to the ground and causing him to fracture his knee. In what a judge called a ‘clear case of racial profiling’, according to The Daily Mail, PC Harrison’s attack left his victim having to seek hospital treatment and use crutches for 12 weeks. Mr Abrahams reportedly told the court that his children remain scared of police and “fear they will be targeted because of the colour of their skin”. The judge said PC Harrison would not have approached the father had he been white. Black men in London are 19 times more likely to be stopped and searched than the general population, a study of official data by University College London has shown.
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A Metropolitan Police officer has been jailed for breaking a black man’s knee in front of his children after they had laid flowers on their mother’s grave. PC Charlie Harrison, 39, was sentenced to two years and three months in prison at Southwark Crown Court on Monday after being found guilty of causing grevious bodily harm (GBH). Mr Abrahams was leaving a cemetery with his children, having laid flowers on their mother’s grave on New Year’s Eve, 2018, according to reports. Harrison pulled over in an unmarked patrol car, Southwark Crown Court heard. in plain clothes, with the intention of conducting a police stop. The officer then used a “leg sweep” on Mr Abrahams, knocking him to the ground and causing him to fracture his knee. In what a judge called a ‘clear case of racial profiling’, according to The Daily Mail, PC Harrison’s attack left his victim having to seek hospital treatment and use crutches for 12 weeks. Mr Abrahams reportedly told the court that his children remain scared of police and “fear they will be targeted because of the colour of their skin”. The judge said PC Harrison would not have approached the father had he been white. Black men in London are 19 times more likely to be stopped and searched than the general population, a study of official data by University College London has shown.
