• Privacy policy
  • T&C’s
  • About Us
    • FAQ
    • Meet the Team
  • Contact us
  • Guest Content
TLE ONLINE SHOP!
  • TLE
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Opinion
  • Elevenses
  • Entertainment
    • All Entertainment
    • Film
    • Lifestyle
      • Horoscopes
    • Lottery Results
      • Lotto
      • Thunderball
      • Set For Life
      • EuroMillions
  • Food
    • All Food
    • Recipes
  • Property
  • Travel
  • Tech/Auto
  • JOBS
No Result
View All Result
The London Economic
SUPPORT THE LONDON ECONOMIC
NEWSLETTER
  • TLE
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Opinion
  • Elevenses
  • Entertainment
    • All Entertainment
    • Film
    • Lifestyle
      • Horoscopes
    • Lottery Results
      • Lotto
      • Thunderball
      • Set For Life
      • EuroMillions
  • Food
    • All Food
    • Recipes
  • Property
  • Travel
  • Tech/Auto
  • JOBS
No Result
View All Result
The London Economic
No Result
View All Result
Home Must Reads Broken Britain

‘It’s very frustrating…but I’m not surprised’ – Man wrongly stopped by police slams racial disparity report

“For me, they need to dismantle and break down the whole system, and they need to put new people in there to build it from the top up because to me it’s too far gone."

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2021-04-01 09:55
in Broken Britain, Must Reads
Credit;PA

Credit;PA

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmailWhatsapp

A man who was wrongly accused of concealing drugs by police has said the findings of a landmark race review are “frustrating” but not surprising.

The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities said that Britain is no longer a country where the “system is deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities”, in a report commissioned in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Ryan Colaco, whose car window was smashed by a police officer after he was wrongly accused of concealing drugs, said he believes institutional racism in the UK is “very apparent”.

Speaking to the PA news agency, Mr Colaco, 31, said: “It’s very frustrating to see, but I’m not surprised.

“It’s very apparent, but it’s very frustrating to see that there’s still a denial in 2021 about institutional racism when it’s eventually been admitted by Cressida Dick.

“It shows that they’re not trying to act on it, but they’re either dismissing it or they don’t care.”

Mr Colaco, a location manager in the film industry, was stopped and accused of smelling of cannabis after being “aggressively tailgated” by the Metropolitan Police in May 2020.

He said: “I got stopped by the Met Police after dropping food off to my dad during the pandemic.

“I got aggressively tailgated by one of those Territorial Support vans, and it was to the point where I couldn’t even see the registration plate of the vehicle because it was so close to me, and so I pulled over.

RelatedPosts

‘Real-life Father Christmas’ spends £15k buying presents for underprivileged children

Migrants say Manston is a ‘prison’ as they beg for help with message in a bottle

Britain’s biggest food bank might close as their energy bill skyrockets

Energy cap rise means we’ll have to choose between ‘food and electricity’

“The police said they smelled cannabis.”

Following the incident, he spoke on Channel 4 about institutional racism and was stopped and searched again on his drive home from the interview, during which his window was smashed and he was strip-searched and held in a cell.

Mr Colaco said he has been stopped and searched about 30 times in his life.

“I’ve never actually smoked cannabis in my life, or been involved with it.

Fed up

“I’m just very vocal about it because I’m fed up,” he told PA.

The Government-backed review of racial disparities in Britain notes improvements such as increasing diversity in elite professions, a shrinking ethnicity pay gap and that children from many ethnic communities do as well or better than white pupils in compulsory education.

The National Education Union (NEU), however, said that some improvements are being made without the Government’s support.

Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of NEU, said: “Many schools themselves are already showing the lead on this and decolonising their curriculum, but today’s report misses the point that schools are doing this in the absence of support and despite the Government.”

(PA Graphics)

The 264-page report makes 24 recommendations, which the commission says have “tried to account for the messy reality of life”, and are aimed at all disadvantaged people.

Need to wake up

These include calls for increased scrutiny of body-worn police footage of stop and searches; more detailed, publicly available data; more local recruitment within police forces; and improved training to help officers interact with the communities they serve.

Mr Colaco said: “They can claim to hire minority ethnics as much as they want, but without changing policies, that problem is still there.

“For me, they need to dismantle and break down the whole system, and they need to put new people in there to build it from the top up because to me it’s too far gone.

“They really need to wake up.

“Even if they don’t want to hold themselves accountable, at least get people that are neutral to make a decision.”

Related: Pupils win! ‘Racist’ uniform policy change, review curriculum that ‘focuses on white kings’ and won’t fly Union Jack

Content Protection by DMCA.com

Subscribe to our Newsletter

View our  Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions

Trending on TLE

  • All
  • trending
Abdollah

‘Rescue us’: Afghan teacher begs UK to help him escape Taliban

CHOMSKY: “If Corbyn had been elected, Britain would be pursuing a much more sane course”

What If We Got Rid Of Prisons?

More from TLE

‘They are destroying us’: Meghan and Harry docuseries released on Netflix

Trump – Nothing wrong with accepting dirt from foreign governments on opponents

Johnson considers setting up charity to fund Symonds ‘out of control’ refurbs in Downing Street

VIDEO – Mhairi Black demolishes the Tories…again

Johnson’s ‘mortgage for benefits’ distraction has been razed to the ground

Serious questions Johnson, Cummings and Gove must answer on Vote Leave offences

Reactions flood in after Hancock signs up for I’m a Celeb… then gets sacked

8 in 10 motorists have taken risks while behind wheel – including drink and drug driving

Amazing photo taken of rocky island watch tower

‘Is Farage here?’: Mick Lynch snubs GB News during press conference

JOBS

FIND MORE JOBS

About Us

TheLondonEconomic.com – Open, accessible and accountable news, sport, culture and lifestyle.

Read more

Contact

Editorial enquiries, please contact: [email protected]

Commercial enquiries, please contact: [email protected]

Address

The London Economic Newspaper Limited t/a TLE
Company number 09221879
International House,
24 Holborn Viaduct,
London EC1A 2BN,
United Kingdom

SUPPORT

We do not charge or put articles behind a paywall. If you can, please show your appreciation for our free content by donating whatever you think is fair to help keep TLE growing and support real, independent, investigative journalism.

DONATE & SUPPORT

© 2019 thelondoneconomic.com - TLE, International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BN. All Rights Reserved.




No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Entertainment
  • Lifestyle
  • Food
  • Travel
  • JOBS
  • More…
    • Elevenses
    • Opinion
    • Property
    • Tech & Auto
  • About Us
    • Meet the Team
    • Privacy policy
  • Contact us

© 2019 thelondoneconomic.com - TLE, International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BN. All Rights Reserved.