Labour MP accuses police of racial profiling after being stopped in a car
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukLabour MP Dawn Butler has accused police of racially profiling her after a vehicle she was travelling in was pulled over for questioning.The former shadow equalities secretary called on officers to “stop associating being black and driving a nice car with crime” as she was a passenger in a BMW driven by a friend, who like her is black, in the streets of Hackney, east London, when they were stopped by Metropolitan Police officers on blue lights.Ms Butler, a vocal critic of stop and search, recorded a video of the incident at around midday on Sunday, with police under heightened scrutiny over incidents of alleged racial profiling.Scotland Yard said the stop was a result of an officer having “incorrectly entered” the car’s registration plate.
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