Labour MP Dawn Butler films herself being stopped by police in London – video

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Officers ordered the car the Labour MP was travelling in to stop, but subsequently admitted they had made a mistake

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Labour MP Dawn Butler has accused the police of being ‘institutionally racist’ after she was stopped while driving to Sunday lunch with a friend.

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... Narrative or.. The full video start to finish and does the traffic cop have a body camera, and then we will get both sides... Just asking? 🤔

They had blanked out windows, there were stopped. End of story. I’ve been stopped by the police too....I’m white.

'....she was stopped while driving...' She was NOT driving, it is clear she was a passenger. '.....the car was being driven by her male friend, who like Butler is black...' So, now her male friend is driving (which one is it?) He is also white, not black Shockingly bad reporting

Black is boring.

so what ? Are blacks not allowed to be stopped and searched ? Do they have some sort of exemption ? The facts are that Hackney is majority black so blacks are more likely to be stopped!! We should be supporting the police and their efforts to stop knife crime !!!

'The MP said she and her friend had been heading to meet people socially: “We were just going out to have a nice lunch. My plans were basically ruined. It’s a sunny Sunday, and you don’t get many of those.' Whole event took less than 10 minutes. Wet lettuce looking for attention

Thank god they are not in Power!! Bunch of pathetic hypocrites which will do anything for Attention!!

It’s baffling that nobody has come forward with videos or images of this, yet she’s making home movies ?

So her friend was stopped and the Officers were polite, but she took it upon herself as the passenger to make it about her, make a video and get a social media bump from the non-event?

The Guardian - front page non-news item with reversed film imagery.

Today - being black has no credence without a police stop & feature in a Guardian non-news item of police entering car plate number wrongly into their system (& Guardian stating that system is prejudiced!), & police apologising. But an officer was surly! Front page news - no!

Interesting release from the Met Police Federation this morning?

Jeez let the man speak🙄

I’m sick of our police officers being splashed all over social media without their consent......

But she wasn't 'stopped' the white guy driving the car was stopped she just pressed the flip on her phone and filmed everything to make it seem as if she was driving - hmm maybe she had an agenda?

So?

ScumMedia

Fake news from the soon to disappear Guardian. Dawn Butler was not pulled over the White male driver was and she just happened to be the irritating bLACK passenger, screaming racist. She should be sacked and whoever wrote this news bulletin

But we've all seen the unflipped video where she's in the passenger seat and the driver is white. You might want to issue a public apology for stoking racial fires with LIES,

I believe there were 3 murders and 14 stabbings in London yesterday. But is this unpleasant MP concerned about that no, it’s all about ME, ME. She failed to mention the driver was white

Why would you film it ? To cause unrest perhaps 🤣

Dawn Butler is nothing more than a race baiting liar.

This needs to be investigated as an example of abuse of race sensitivities (ie pulling race card). If it transpires that it’s a normal traffic stop and the driver was white, then Dawn absolutely needs to step down try trying aggravate race tensions, tensions with the police etc

the car was being driven by her male friend, who like Butler is black

When the police pull a car over they pull the driver over.

She did so well to keep her cool.

Liars !!!!! SHE WASNT STOPPED THE DRIVER WAS

Black While Driving UK Racism Police

Typical from the guardian. We know that Owen Jones is friends with keir starmer. She is trying to divide the country like labour has been doing for years. Our country has woken up and we are sick of your left wing propaganda.

If the policeman was not lying then he made a simple mistake, no need to play the race card.

She's a liar

Was Dawn Butler driving, was the driver white and has the video on your website been flipped?

She wasn't driving! Fakenews

Why is this being shown as a mirror image Guardian?

Fake News Alert! No she wasn’t stopped. A car she was a passenger in was and the driver she carefully edited out of the video looks astonishingly more like a white male to me.

More inciting of racial tension by The Guardian. Articles like this seem to be a daily occurrence and they do not understand the harm it is causing. Is suppose the only positive is that no one read the Guardian so its impact is limited.

Please issue a correction

MPs are above traffic stops, obviously.

White supremacists will still try and justify this

You have a duty of care to report new accurately! You know for a fact she was not the driver so why post it like she is? fakenew .Ofcom please look into this.

so she was driving?

I've seen way too many videos of UK Police behaving inappropriately. I'm disgusted, frankly.

Maybe if like most self important people like herself who feel she has a point to prove it may have been fair to actually let the police man answer before she enacted the I am anMP - obviously not at all threatening to the poor guy just trying to do his job

Video was flipped and the driver was white. Oops 🤭

Hang on was SHE stopped or was the car she was a passenger in stopped? I thought she’s saying she was stopped because she is black. When it seems it was a white man driving and who was stopped. I have no doubt racial profiling happens but is this an example of it? Not sure

Officer enters incorrect registration into ANPR machine and pulls someone over by mistake, then apologises. Where's the story?

Are you going to reported the alleged inconsistencies in her claim? Call for the police body cams to be released, so the officers can be exonerated? Or are you going to turn the usual blind eye.

Why is the video being flipped to look like she is driving?! Clearly you can see the officers badge is flipped

The officer seemed very polite, she did not.

How come the text on the billboard behind the cop is backwards? Weird

She wasn’t the driver tho was she her white male friend was. How does that fit the narrative?

But she wasn't stopped. The driver was. What's your agenda?

you are click bait

Driver was white aaaaand why is she smiling? Because she sees an opportunity. ScumMP

Arrogant rude and out of touch watch this video and tell me how it’s racist. This is why labour can never be trusted in power

The WHITE driver was stopped by the police. ScumMedia

You mean DawnButlerBrent the antisemitic Labour MP? What is she trying to start now?Do white lives not matter?

Why are the right wing nut jobs on here claiming the drive was white? Are you all addicted to lying?

She wasn’t driving

An apology would be appropriate rather than opportunity to speak to a senior officer

Why are you not showing anything substantive about what the police said or did? It's just Butler making accusations.

She didn’t let them put a word in sideways to explain why they’ve actually stopped her. Just unleashed a whole load of nonsense on them based on her assumptions!

bUt ThE uK iSnT rAcIsT

She wasn't driving and the driver was white. Also why did it take her forever to release footage she obviously cut? She's full of shit

The very ending of the 'almost'monologue is so inspiring ' so so right erm ok'. That iust about sums her and her little video up, doesn't it.

Absolute B.S.!!!!!! Hear me!!

Racial profiling of black people should stop, do something about it SadiqKhan when we elected you we hoped you would be a voice for the voiceless&downtrodden turns out you're a big disappointment metpoliceuk sort this out,u can't keep giving excuses for this appalling behaviour

She was not stopped? The white man driving was stopped? Watch the video? Focus on the real news of black young men being stopped not on middle aged white men being stopped.

The footage was flipped to make it look like she was driving. Intentionally misleading the viewer + driver was white. fakenews

Aren't you supposed to be journalists? Haven't you seen the footage proving that Butler flipped the video and that the driver was white?

metpoliceuk , Cressida Dick, & all Police Forces must overhaul their standards in a multitude of areas to overcome the ingrained attitudes of many Police Officers: recruitment; training; culture; performance and operational monitoring & measurement; discipline. DawnButlerBrent

So it turns out she wasn’t driving, and was being driven by a white male. Butler has faked a “racist” incident to stir up hatred and for attention. Utterly abhorrent. Will Keir_Starmer do the right thing and remove her from the party. Labour should not harbour race baiters.

If you can't see that this is a coordinated effort, then you'll never see it. Whether they kill you or apologize, the mission is accomplished. 'Let people of color know they are not free and their mobility can be taken at any time.'

Amazing how many white people think this is normal and acceptable and I should say astounding how many people are looking for a law she has broken just so the stop can be justified.

She drove round and round for days until she was finally stopped.

Her footage speaks for itself or it would do if she would stop talking

Instead of bellyaching & trying to make a mountain out of a molehill, Dawn Butler should be praising police officers that risk life & limb fighting drugs & knife thugs everyday. But no she won't, pounce on every mistake for political gain!

What a coincidence just 24 hours after criticising Cressida Dick for failing to tackle the Mets institutional racism.

White man driving car stopped in London DawnButler

A number of people were murdered on the same day in London including a young lad on Oxford Street... But Dawn's white driver was pulled over. This is the 13th time I've seen this story today and not one about the murders from you, Sky or the BBC. I follow then all.

Lol why is this news! She comes off abit deranged in that vid, is it edited to remove the context of her irrelevant rant about profiling. NO one is profiling middle aged black women lol.

So does this suggest cars and passengers from North Yorkshire aren’t welcome in London? 🤔

I am trained on Police National Computer - I used to update records (the system that the officer said was 'broken') and I am happy to give evidence. DawnButlerBrent The police is broken, not PNC (or ANPR). DefundThePolice netpol GBCLegal

Set up fake news

Not just playing the race card, but also backing it up with a great big 'Do You Know Who I Am?'. A slightly more self-effacing approach from Butler would've have had more people on her side.

She wasn't stopped by the police

wow 'dawn ', erm if it was a male MP would the police in a statement be using their first name? seems pretty unprofessional to me? metpoliceuk

She wasn’t driving, so why is the photo showing her in the driving street?

Good on the police for trying to do their job.

With officers bullied into stating they 'made a mistake'.....

I lile her sunglasses

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