Met settles £1m civil case after wrongful arrest of black bank manager in 2017

Dale Semper, pictured here in 2020, said the lives of him and his family ‘were torn apart by the unjustified actions of the police’. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

A black executive who sued the Metropolitan police for £1m has told of the “bitter-sweet moment” of reaching a settlement with the force after alleging that he was racially profiled.

Dale Semper was pulled over in his car by police officers in August 2017 and wrongly accused of involvement in gun crime, something he said had a devastating impact on his job as a bank manager, his finances and his mental health.