Ricardo Dos Santos and his partner and Team GB athlete Bianca Williams believe they were racially profiled during an encounter with officers in 2020.
Video from IOPC showing police body worn camera footage of sprinter Ricardo Dos Santos and athlete Bianca Williams in July 2020officer denied following a vehicle to perform a stop and search because the driver was black, a misconduct hearing has heard.
Pc Jonathan Clapham, who is among five officers who could be sacked if gross misconduct is proven, also said on Monday during cross-examination that he and his colleagues behaved “leniently” with Mr Dos Santos during the stop and search and that, based on the sprinter’s behaviour, it was “despicable” he could be seen as a “role model”.
He said he saw “rapid acceleration” and “excessive braking”, “which would indicate that that driver is nervous when clearly alerted to the fact of a marked police vehicle being behind him”. He said he believed members of the public would have expected police officers to address “the suspicious, borderline dangerous, behaviour”.
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