Police who handcuffed Bianca Williams to face gross misconduct charge – Police conduct panel finds case to answer against officers who searched British sprinter in front of her baby

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  1. Five (possibly six) officers from the Territorial Support Group.

    Doesn’t sound like ‘policing by consent’ to me.

  2. > “The officer dragged me out of the car with a raised baton and handcuffed me, he falsely alleged that he could smell cannabis on me and recorded this as the justification for the search on the stop and search form.”

    Be plenty of dumb cops who believe they can use that as a legitimate excuse to top anyone though it be doubtful it is used to stop many who are white.

    >[*Telegraph: Police should not stop and search when they smell cannabis, says official guidance*](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/12/police-officers-should-not-stop-search-smell-cannabis-official/) **—** ([🪞](https://archive.ph/5lLGA))
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    >*By* Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent
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    >**12 December 2017** • 7:09pm
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    >Police officers should not routinely stop and search someone simply because they smell cannabis, according to official guidance.
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    >While being caught in possession of the Class B drug can result in a five year prison sentence, police are being advised to walk away even if they strongly suspect someone may have been using the substance.
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    >The official guidance was issued by the College of Policing, which helps formulate the training for all officers in England and Wales.
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    >But last night one of the country’s most senior policemen described the guidance as “wrong” and said he would still encourage his officers to carry out stop and search on cannabis suspects.
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    >Chief Constable Andy Cooke of Merseyside Police, wrote on Twitter: “The guidance in my view is wrong and the law does not preclude it .
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    >“Smell of cannabis is sufficient to stop search and I will continue to encourage my officers to use it particularly on those criminals who are engaged in serious and organised crime.” …

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    and more on the racism:

    >https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/search?q=smell+of+cannabis+stop+and+search&sort=relevance&t=all

  4. >An investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct of the July 2020 stop of Williams and her partner, Ricardo dos Santos, has concluded there is a case to answer for gross misconduct against five Metropolitan police officers.

    In a high profile case like this the IOPC will always claim there is a case to answer, that way it looks like they’ve done their job.

  6. Fuck, I kept reading the start of the title and thinking it meant they hit her in the face with a handcuff, until I read someone else’s comment quoting her saying she was handcuffed, then was still trying to figure out how her face fit into it, like imagining a handcuff on a nose, then went back to read the title carefully and was like “ooooh”.

  7. > Officers are claimed to have said they believed they could smell cannabis

    Any officer who actually says this shit should probably be retired to a back room somewhere. Honestly this is code for “they are black innit”.

  8. Why should they apologise? As long as they had a clear reason to search them then no apology is warranted.

    The continual bleating of racial profiling has become ridiculous – meanwhile this week another black family has been brutally stabbed to death by another black man. How many black on black knife killings is that now this year, how many last year and this past decade?

    Didn’t Sasha Johnson bleat about this sort of thing before she was shot in the head by a gang of black men – then her family begged the police she had trashed and attacked to find the gunmen. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

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