OTTAWA -- Ottawa police have apologized for how they handled an incident where a white woman called 911 on a Black man in a park, leading the operator to tell the man he's intimidating the woman.
OTTAWA -- Ottawa police have apologized for how they handled an incident where a white woman called 911 on a Black man in a park, leading the operator to tell the man he's intimidating the woman.
The man who posted the video said it was taken by his brother, and said the woman called police because his brother wasn't two metres away from her while they crossed a bridge. “Sir... do we really need to send a police officer just for you let this girl by?" the operator asks."You're intimidating her, sir, okay, can you just stand to the side," the operator says, as the man replies that he's already standing to the side.
The police force replied to the Twitter video and said they have spoken with the man who posted it to offer a "full and unreserved apology.""At this point it is clear that this was not an appropriate use of the 911 system and the Service did not act appropriately in handling the call."The incident comes months after a video in New York's Central Park showed a white woman calling police after a Black man requested she leash her dog.
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