Two Metropolitan Police officers who allegedly bundled a black schoolboy to the ground before handcuffing him were motived by race, a gross misconduct hearing will hear.
PCs Benjamin Morgan and McCorley Clewes were responding to a knifepoint street robbery of a 13-year-old boy in the area. They mistakenly believed De-Shaun was involved.
But Morgan and Clewes’ actions in detaining the teenager failed to make “reasonable adjustments” on the basis of his age, or to adopt a child-centred approach, according to a notice of the five-day hearing due to start on September 23.
It alleges: “The officers’ actions were influenced by the suspect’s ethnicity.”
The use of handcuffs was excessive and there were no meaningful efforts to seek De-Shaun’s cooperation, it …