Carl Abrahams
Carl Abrahams, 47, had been visiting his partner’s grave with his two teenage sons when he was targeted by PC Charlie Harrison in December 2018.
The police officer stopped Mr Abrahams ‘in a clear case of racial profiling’ before kicking him, knocking him to the ground and fracturing his shin. He had to spend a night in hospital and use crutches for three months. Harrison first said he’d stopped
Carl as he was looking for ‘drugs and guns’, but later admitted he had no grounds to carry out a stop and search.
Harrison, 39, was later jailed for two years and three months, and he was dismissed from the Metropolitan Police. During the sentencing, judge Gregory Perrins said, ‘Having heard the evidence at trial, I strongly suspect that the reason that you stopped Mr Abrahams and his sons was because they were black.
‘Had Mr Abrahams and his sons been white I suspect you would have simply drove on by, this was in my judgement a clear case of racial profiling.’