Senior Met officer defends police who stopped Dawn Butler

Officers could not have known Labour MP was black before they targeted car'

Officers from an anti-violence taskforce who stopped a car carrying the Labour MP Dawn Butler, sparking claims of racial profiling, were not at fault, Scotland Yard's deputy commissioner has declared.

Sir Steve House said officers could not have known Butler and the driver of the BMW car were black before they stopped it, because the windows were tinted.