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Tom Wall

Met denies racism after black man ‘choked’ in illegal stop and search

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Zak Sharif-Ali on Chiswick Common where he was stopped in 2012 by three uniformed Metropolitan police officers before being strip-searched at a police station.
Zak Sharif-Ali on Chiswick Common where he was stopped in 2012 by three Metropolitan police officers before being strip-searched at a police station. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

The Metropolitan police force is facing a fresh allegation of racism after a black man walking his dog claimed he was choked for 90 seconds in a headlock before being taken back to a police station and strip-searched.

Following a decade-long legal battle for justice, the Met last month accepted that Zac Sharif-Ali was illegally stopped and searched by a white officer, PC Duncan Bullock, on London’s Chiswick Common in December 2012.

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