Wrong Skin colour ,Wrong place at the wrong time...

[Babylon]

Photo: Tony Fouhse/IDRC
UN researcher slams ‘racist' Oslo police

A Ugandan UN climate researcher has "reluctantly" accepted an apology from Oslo police after he was searched on suspicion of drug dealing.

Shuaib Lwasa was stopped near the city's Central Station in October as he stretched his legs during a break in a meeting with Norway's Climate and Pollution Agency, newspaper Aftenposten reports.

Lwasa, a researcher with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said a police officer asked him where he was going and requested that he show identification. Before he had time to answer, the officer went through his pockets as passers-by looked on, the paper said.

Shaken by the incident, Lwasa wrote a complaint to the police demanding a formal apology for the "disrespectful" and "humiliating" encounter.

The Norwegian government's climate agency also took the police to task, asking if they should now start warning future guests of the risk that they risked falling foul of the forces of law and order.

The police clarified in a letter that it was permitted "in certain situations" to search somebody for their identity papers, but admitted that in this case it was "incorrect and shouldn't have been carried out."

Lwasa accepted the subsequent apology but remained angry at what he described as "lies" by the police officer who stopped him on Karl Johans Gate.

The policeman told superiors that he followed Lwasa because he had a bulge in his pocket and appeared concerned when he caught sight of the officer.

"I had my hands in my pocket because it was cold," Lwasa told Aftenposten.
He added that he had no idea the area around the station was known as a hotbed of drug-dealing activity.

"I asked for the reason he was searching me. He replied that this street was well known to have lots of black people selling drugs. Is that not racist?"

Lwasa said the experience had left him traumatized, adding that he had never experienced anything else like it in all his years of international travel.

 

[Hukumuzuku]

I've lived in Oslo for almost 10 years, and never once been stopped by Cops for any fuggin' reason during all my time there. Huyu siyo tu ni mshamba fulani, but probablyalso some attention seeking egomaniac by virtue of his supposed status as an "intellectual" and employee of the UN. Angetuambia how much of a worthless piece of garbage he actually is in the eyes of Ugandan Police or any other equivalent brutal, corrupt, and fugged-up African Police force.

 

[TIMING]

I've lived in Oslo for almost 10 years, and never once been stopped by Cops for any fuggin' reason during all my time there. Huyu siyo tu ni mshamba fulani, but probablyalso some attention seeking egomaniac by virtue of his supposed status as an "intellectual" and employee of the UN. Angetuambia how much of a worthless piece of garbage he actually is in the eyes of Ugandan Police or any other equivalent brutal, corrupt, and fugged-up African Police force.

mkuu umepotea sana aisee

 

[Hukumuzuku]

mkuu umepotea sana aisee

Kivipi, bro? Please explain...

 

[King’asti]

That was racist indeed! Before you even reply, he is already into u!? A police will always be a police, whether he is bue, green purple or black!

Before he had time to answer, the officer went through his pockets as passers-by looked on, the paper said.

“I asked for the reason he was searching me. He replied that this street was well known to have lots of black people selling drugs. Is that not racist?”

http://www.thelocal.no/page/view/un-researcher-slams-racist-oslo-police

 

[cartura]

call it racial profiling... some dudes will always think that people of certain ethnic origins particulary blacks have a natural disposition to be on the wrong side of the law

 

[Raia Fulani]

kama ni mimi nimefanyiwa hivyo ningehakikisha anakula kipepsi cha mdomo ili roho yangu itulie