Barking council leader Darren Rodwell told a podcast he planned to confront a resident at their home.
A Labour candidate said he asked police not to respond if they were contacted by a resident he was planning to confront at their home.
Cllr Rodwell is Labour’s general election candidate in Barking and the leader of Barking and Dagenham Council. It is unclear if he confronted the person at their home.Cllr Rodwell said the incident in 2022 was prompted by the setting up of a Facebook page which aimed “to have me taken out”.podcast: “I approached the police and they said: ‘Oh there’s nothing we can do, it’s not a direct threat.
In 2022 he publicly apologised after saying he had the “worst tan possible for a black man” at a Black History Month event. At an event marking Black History Month, he told the audience: “You might have noticed that I’ve got the worst tan possible for a black man.” He was subject to death threats and recounted “someone putting a Stanley knife to my throat when I was going to the toilet” at the election count.
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