A Black British nurse says she's chosen this moment to go public with the video of her arrest last year because she felt her ordeal would at last be taken seriously
“Prior to this, if I ever mentioned the problems, the struggles of being a Black person, you would immediately be shut down and told you’ve got a chip on your shoulder,” she told Reuters in an interview.
Bennett, who in April 2019 was pulled from her car, arrested and kept in a cell for 18 hours, says she believes she was treated unfairly and aggressively during what she said was a “petrifying” late-night encounter with police because she is Black. At various points during the incident in southwest London, Bennett said that she was scared, tried to call a lawyer, called her father, and said she did not want to be touched by any male officer.
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