Two Metropolitan Police officers were found guilty of gross misconduct on Wednesday over the stop and search of two black athletes.
Ricardo dos Santos, 28, an Olympic sprinter, and Bianca Williams, 29, a Team GB athlete, had complained to the police watchdog after alleging they were profiled during a “disturbing” stop 4 July 2020.
PC Jonathan Clapham and PC Sam Franks have now been found guilty of gross misconduct over the search, and the pair have subsequently been sacked from the force.
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49 Comments
Ahh there is some justice, they did their jobs badly, they are meant to be a trustworthy pillar of society, enforce the law correctly and fairly, most of all they shouldn’t lie but they did, this meant that they got the sack, which is great because other officers will now see that if they do this same rubbish to the public, they will also get the sack, if they do their jobs correctly then this won’t happen to them.
Good need to get police like that off the streets
I hope these Black people are proud of themselves. How embarrassing screaming and shouting when asked to get out of the car, shows they had every intent of causing as much trouble as possible. Respect to the Police wherever they serve.
No win for police. Most people would have calmly cooperated but………….
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good, glad they got the sack, but not happy about the go fund thing, out of order
Definitely the colour of their skin, not their behaviour…
Black privilege
What a pantomime that was😂
They've released the full footage from when the police first encountered thier vehicle , they were speeding and driving eratically, cutting corners , doing 32/40 in a 20mph zone , when the police pulled up next to them with lights etc , they sped off in the opposite direction, thats fleeing and grounds for the force they used , entitled prentetious people thinking they have the right to ignore police trying to stop them and continue speeding until they reach thier home, then refuse to listen to the police, argue and verbally resisting , the police had every right to immediately cuff them for fleeing a traffic stop .
Its a shame two officer's trying to do there jod as ordered have got the sack.
Nice to see that the colour someones skin can get cops fired
And now fellow corrupt officers are supporting them! All five should be sacked.
They were always going to make an example of one or two just to please a certain community
Sacked for good reason!! The Met have been a pain in the arse since the miners strike in 😂the 80s!!
They were sacked for gross misconduct as a result of lying on the job in order to harass a Black couple. Same way I would get sacked for gross misconduct if I lied in my financial services job. Same way a businessman got sacked for not scanning certain items at his work canteen.
I can guess why so many are fighting in defence of the officers for their gross misconduct…
Confrontational soon as he got out the two cops are cannon fodder the pair want compo
Why didn't these two stop ???? Why did they want to try and get away from the police ????
Why didn't they stop when asked? Answer the question.
We live in a society that is ready to jump on everyone and everything and yet the people filming on their phones are riddled with faults and suffer in their minds everyday…such hypocrites
There is no grounds for a search for weapons, this is just officers making up grounds based on nothing. Being found guilty of gross misconduct should act as a warning to other rogue officers who abuse their power.
Black are innocent of every crime
Met Police are just pure Tyrants even more , female cops in the UK are out of control. disgraceful
Are ee sure this is not America? It certainly looks like America. The behavior is similar. I have always believed the white people in England are the same as America. After sll George Washington was English decent. His parents stole and murdered the natives of this land. Amazing.
WBBLM Well-Behaved Black Lives Matter.
Absolte complete incompetence of police
Is it because iz black?
Let's be honest black cause 99% of problems in london
This has got to stop. Just keep filming and educate yourself with the law.
They have been found guilty of misconduct but that doesn’t mean criminal charges were brought upon them just that they were sacked. Those officers should be writing a personal apology to the couple, to the Met they have disgraced and lied on their report. I don’t know if this is real justice but if police want better standards if found guilty of misconduct is one thing and they’re sacked and it took this long is outrageous. More needs to be done and if these officers aren’t going to be criminally charged then they should at least write an apology letter to the couple not the Met the two officers need to write it. Cause their careers are over, good luck at trying to find work given the economic crisis we’re in.
Yep, gangsters in uniform. Abuse of power. White supremacy in my opinion and everyone is entitled to their own opinions
Drove off then swallowed his gear😂😂😂 . Stop more lovely people like these- they are JD sport loving theives
It's awful to be subjected to this ordeal.
Pretty funny that these cops have now made more money than these virtue signalling criminals will ever see through crowdfunding. Good for them. The tide is starting to turn against the naive cretins who think all police are criminals and all criminals are victims!
Well done to the police for arresting a gangster. He talk like a ghetto gangster as well dressed like one. Next time mate dressed civilised and please speak the queens English.
And over 9000 people have raised £150,000+ for these officers who were doing their job. Good to see people still have sense
Why did they speed off & evade the police prior ?? I wouldn't dream of doing that because of.the consequences. It creates suspicion. Even the wokest must grasp that ?
It doesn't validate the behsviour of the coppers here & they were like a pack, therefore a joint enterprise scenario so, all equally culpable for exvessive policing …. but the initisl not stopping for the cops is something that that wealthy couple chose to do. Did they complain about themselves in that regard ?
Typical UK Police, over reaching and undertrained, goons
The suspect vehicle took a right turn in the opposite lane of traffic, was caught on dashcam speeding 32 in a 20 and failed to stop for police when the can turned on its blue lights. And once they get stopped, the officers get fired for doing their job. What a lovely world we live in
these officers are a hunch of PIGs
get all them officers fired now please😅im not paying taxes for this bs
This is why nobody likes Police officers.
If this is unacceptable (which is definitely is) then what is, what the Palestinians are experiencing everyday for the last 75 years by the illegal zionist colonisers of Palestine called??
Why wasn't he arrested for dangerous driving? Speeding and driving on the wrong side of the road is extremely dangerous. He should be locked up.
So glad the cops Just Giving page raised over 152k. Hopefully their appeal will see them rightfully reinstated.
Meanwhile that Bristol BLM fund raiser stole all the money and spent it on Uber and Nandos.
😂😂😂😂 no one is above the law
pigs poilce
Hope they did get fired
This type of plod is far too prevelant in broken britain .
corrupt met again so pleased they were sacked
Too much smoking' the 'erb and playing grand theft auto can do strange things to one's mind.
I'm currently on Pluto, battling the Aliens underneath my bedsheets.
Yet to reach a verdict?….its quite simple…gone