'The system needs to change': Dawn Butler on being stopped by police
The Labour MP describes her experience of being pulled over with a friend in London
I was going through Hackney with my friend, who was driving. He's male and he's black. There were two police cars and the sirens went off, and we were wondering where they were going to. I thought something big must have happened. Then my friend stopped, and I asked him why. He said: They're stopping us." That's when I got my phone out and started to record.
Two police officers jumped out. One went to my friend and the other one came to me. They asked my friend his name and where the car was registered. He told them, and they told him that on the system the car was registered to North Yorkshire. He said: Well, I can't help you with that. It's my car, registered in my name, at my address."
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