Laws designed to protect racial minorities are being used to prosecute them say civil advocacy leader in exclusive interview.
The leader of civil rights advocacy group, Southall Black Sisters has called for the Crown Prosecution Service, the British Transport Police and the Metropolitan Police to apologise for wrongly prosecuting three black women for assault after they were the victims of a racist attack on the tube.
In September 29th 2023 Selma Taha, Danae Thomas and Davina Riggon say they were the victims of a racist attack on the northern line at Kings Cross Station.profanities and called “slaves” before Selma Taha was bitten by an intoxicated white female passenger. It soon emerged that during the abuse an off duty Metropolitan Police officer had been present the entire time but the women said had only intervened once the altercation turned physical.
Danae Thomas told the officer: “you’re a white police officer and you’re not listening”. The officer then asked Danae Thomas “what’s that got to do with anything?” The British Transport Police say “we presented the evidence available to us from body worn video, witness testimonials and CCTV footage. CPS deemed the evidence met the threshold for charge.
We are satisfied detectives carried out a thorough investigation into allegations from both parties.”
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