Akhmed Yakoob, who stood as an independent candidate in Birmingham, has hundreds of thousands of social media followers
He has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, and he has been using this platform to promote his political ambitions.
Protests took place outside the offices of Mr Burnham, who is the police and crime commissioner overseeing the force, on Thursday evening . It followed protests outside a police station in Rochdale - where the family seen in the video lives - the night before. He asked people to 'pray' for the man who was kicked and stamped on by an armed officer - who was later named as Muhammed Fahir Ammaz - claiming that a CT scan revealed a 'cyst on his brain'. He told the media that Fahir's medical condition had worsened.
Mr Yakoob later posted the name of the teacher in the video, and the school she worked at, to his followers. The backlash that ensued saw the woman and her school inundated with hundreds of messages, many of them abusive, including death threats and demands for her sacking, according to Birmingham Live who spoke to the teacher who had been campaigning for the Labour Party.
"That video was shared with me and provided with captions already on it, so the same captions were repeated on my video. I do apologise to the teacher, to her colleagues and to the students and the school for the distress this has caused." Asked about his past support for Mr Tate, who is a currently awaiting trial in Romania on charges of human trafficking and rape - allegations Tate denies - the criminal defence lawyer said: "Let me tell you about why I said I rate him. I rate him the way he stands up to the mainstream media."
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