Should Scotland Yard be renamed "Goon Yard"?

Both cops mentioned below should be dismissed. They are not fit to be police officers. But it was only publicity that got them investigated at all

A police officer allegedly assaulted a 15-year-old black teenager hours after his colleague was recorded racially abusing another man.

PC Joe Harrington was reportedly seen on CCTV kicking and kneeing the young man in a London police station’s custody area.

An independent investigation finished last week and the report advises the Metropolitan Police to take disciplinary action against the officer, reported The Guardian.

Now the force is deciding whether to take any further action against PC Harrington, who is currently on restricted duties.

The alleged assault came just hours after PC Alex MacFarlane, 52, was recorded on a mobile phone telling another black man that he ‘will always be a n****r’.

Mauro Demetrio, 21, secretly used his mobile phone as he was subjected to a torrent of abuse while handcuffed in the back of a police van.

Both incidents, which happened soon after last summer’s riots that brought chaos to London, could be hugely damaging to the Metropolitan Police.

PC Harrington was not heard making any racist comments on the recording, reported The Guardian.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman acknowledged that there was an allegation of an officer using ‘excessive force on a prisoner in the custody suite’.

‘This matter was referred to the IPCC and the officer placed on restricted duties pending the outcome of their independent investigation,’ the spokesman told the Daily Mail.

‘We have now received their findings and recommendations which we will consider and respond to.’

Original report here

An exceprt from the report by The Guardian

A policeman has been captured on tape allegedly assaulting a young black teenager just hours after a colleague of his was recorded abusing another man with a serious racial slur.

PC Joe Harrington has been placed on restricted duties after he was allegedly seen kicking the 15-year-old to the ground and kneeing him, in the custody area of an east London police station. Part of the incident was recorded on CCTV.

An independent investigation into the alleged assault on the 15-year-old concluded last week and a report, understood to recommend disciplinary action, was submitted to the Metropolitan police on Monday. The force will now consider what action if any to take against Harrington.

Hours earlier, Harrington was present when another officer, PC Alex MacFarlane, was recorded on a mobile phone telling Mauro Demetrio, 21, a black man from Beckton in east London, that "the problem with you is you will always be a nigger". Growing controversy over the two incidents, which occurred shortly after the riots last summer, have triggered urgent reviews by the Crown Prosecution Service into initial legal advice that neither officer should be charged.

The recording was made by Demetrio, who alleges he was strangled and racially abused after being arrested and placed in the back of a police van on 11 August – the day after the end of rioting in London last summer.

The mobile phone recording captured one officer saying that he strangled him because he was "a cunt". Moments later, PC MacFarlane abuses Demetrio and adds: "You'll always have black skin colour".

Harrington was not heard making any racist remarks on the recording, but was one of three officers initially investigated over the alleged mistreatment of Demetrio. MacFarlane, who can also be heard telling Demetrio "don't hide behind your black skin", has been suspended.

Demetrio has spoken about how the racist abuse he suffered has left him feeling traumatised. Shortly after being driven to Forest Gate police station, he told police in the custody suite that he had been abused by police officers and urged them to listen to his mobile phone.

It was while he in the custody area that Demetrio witnessed Harrington allegedly assault the 15-year-old, who was handcuffed. Demetrio told investigators he saw Harrington kick the young teenager in the back of the leg and, once he was on the floor, knee him in the back.

He said the alleged assault made an "echoing" sound and the teenager cried out: "I am on the floor now – you can't do anything to me. I am handcuffed and I am on the floor."

Demetrio said that medical staff were called to the scene after the teenager, whose identity is not known, began making "strange" breathing noises for several minutes.

After Demetrio reported what he had seen, a separate IPCC investigation was launched into the case of the 15-year-old and CCTV of the incident was obtained – although the quality of the footage has been described as poor.

Original report here




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