A black former Met Police officer has sparked an interesting debate on social media after he published a thread of tweets regarding his own experiences in the Metropolitan Police against a backdrop of, what many perceive, is a constant ‘bashing’ of the police by some sections of the mainstream media.
Former Detective Sergeant Aden Jama said that he created the thread following an exchange on social media that he had with Claudia Webbe MP.
Aden said:
‘I was prompted by my Twitter exchange with Claudia Webbe.
‘She was inflaming racial tensions. I worked on Trident – yet she seemed to think chairing meetings gave her better insight. When challenged she accused the police of racism and misogyny’.
The tweets, published below with the corresponding videos and screenshots as selected by Aden, have been ‘liked’ and retweeted hundreds of times on social media.
In the series of tweets, Aden Jama, who is now a Threat Intelligence Advisor & Leadership Strategist, said:
‘In the very early days – like former PC Ali – I sang from the same “institutional racism” hymn sheet.
‘In the video below, everyone seems credible enough.
‘But what are you not hearing?
‘I almost left within my first 2 years of service too – but I stayed on for over 10 years.
‘Coincidently, I also worked for chief superintendent @MPSRajKohli. He actively supports officers – of all backgrounds – to thrive & progress up the ranks!
‘The commissioner – Dame Cressida Dick – also has a long history of supporting ethnic minority officers.
‘However, she has – rightly – rejected the “institutional racism” label.
‘You should be asking: if the Met is not institutionally racist, why do I keep hearing troubling accounts from former ethnic minority officers?
‘In my opinion, the uncomfortable truth is: the “institutional racism” term was hijacked by financially & ideologically motivated threat actors.
‘They profit by inflaming racial tensions & by attacking the police.
‘If former officers are appearing on national television to publicise their books – or business ventures – you should presume they’re neither traumatised nor broken victims of institutional racism.
‘Many police insiders & outsiders, cannot see how some young & impressionable officers are “ideologically indoctrinated”.
‘Biased media outlets overtly importing US problems – for clicks – is only part of the problem!
‘Off-camera, something much more sinister is happening.
‘Let me share my “lived experience” – straight out of police training school.
‘Week 1: I was pulled aside by an experienced black officer.
‘She pointed out 5 racist officers & supervisors that I should watch out for.
‘No evidence was provided. But why would she lie?
‘I naively thanked her for warning me & I hunted for confirming evidence – every day.
‘Week 2: I was recommended a book about police institutional racism – Not One of Us by Ali Dizaei. (A former Asian officer who was jailed for corruption.)
‘I accepted every word & I was appalled by his treatment.
‘I asked myself: When will senior officers come after me?
‘Week 3: I was encouraged to read the Macpherson Report: because “nothing had changed” since Stephen Lawrence’s murder.
‘In fact, the Met increased ethnic minority recruitment & public confidence was improving.
‘Week 104: I was now – of course – primed & weaponised to take the Met to an Employment Tribunal.
‘Yes, I had a few issues with a few individuals – but “institutional racism” was not the actual problem.
‘Fortunately, I withdrew before it became too late for me.
‘At this point – while I suspected something nefarious was happening – I had no idea how indoctrination worked.
‘But after I became a detective – I learnt about ideologically motivated groups & their playbooks for radicalising disenfranchised people.
‘It seems obvious now – you reveal the illusion of “institutional racism” by viewing it through the lens of ideological indoctrination.
‘Verify & challenge “the facts” – however convincing they appear at first glance.
‘In her most recent divisive article, Dawn Butler reminds you she was stopped by police last year.
‘But there are no “outstanding questions to be answered”.
‘Her own video evidence proves it was a lawful & highly professional traffic stop.
‘Dawn Butler MP consistently points out that black people are disproportionately stopped & searched by police.
‘But her anti-police article fails to mention: black kids are disproportionately the victims & suspects of knife crime.
‘Many good people remain silent because they genuinely fear speaking up.
‘Some divisive people loudly exploit silence to promote themselves.
‘For political clicks, they gleefully steal headlines from genuine black victims of violent crimes.
‘We lawfully used S.60 stop & search powers. And we seized thousands of knives from kids.
‘Ria Chatter talks about the “long-lasting trauma” of getting searched – but ignores the real trauma of getting stabbed.
Since publishing the tweets, Aden said that he has been inundated with messages of support from ‘officers of all ranks and backgrounds’.
Aden told Emergency Services News: ‘They have supported me for speaking up’.
Follow Aden on Twitter: MrAdenJama
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Institutional racism hasn’t been hijacked. The term is doing exactly what was wanted- providing a stick with which to beat the police for over/under policing (delete as applicable) any ethnic group.
You’re black and under arrest: institutional racism
You’re Asian and a victim: institutional racism
You’ve been stop and searched and a BFO knife has been found: institutional racism
It’s a great term for trying to scare a few probationers and almost ass senior officers into doing what they’re told instead of their duty.
The racist murder of Stephen Lawrence 30 years ago set all this off, with his parents suddenly throwing out a phrase they had no doubt been given, ‘institutional racism’. I recall an interview Paxman conducted with Neville Lawrence (Stephen’s father), in which he was asked for just one example of institutional racism…he couldn’t do so. This is why I suggest it was a term given to them by those who profit from racial division, a pattern of behaviour we also see in America, and resulting in the anti white racism, looting, rioting, arson, destruction, and even murders from anti white racist, Marxist hate groups like ‘black lies matter’. But the media are equally culpable is this division, that has resulted in divisions now evident within the ranks, as the ‘black police officers association’ developed and grew, accessible only to those with shades of skin colour other than white. Gosh, one wonders whether a ‘white police officers association’ would be equally enthusiastically established barring access to officers with black or brown skin? We all know the answer because those who profit from race baiting always discuss the issue as if whites are perpetual offenders, and innocent blacks their perpetual victims…all of which is far from the truth.
Examples of this are plentiful, but here is just one. 30 years ago, a small gang of white, racist thugs approached teo young black men waiting at a bus stop. One of that gang stabbed one of the black men before the gang ran off. The victim was Stephen Lawrence. The investigation which followed was marred by a degree of incompetence, and some corruption, but according to an independent, televised investigation which followed, there was no police racism affecting the investigation and prosecution. Today, whenever racist violence is alluded to the media still reference Stephen Lawrence. This is why we should ask why. Not 30, but 15 years ago, a white 15 year old schoolboy, called Kris Donald, was abducted from the streets of his hometown of Glasgow. He was driven a long way against his will, to another town, before being returned to Glasgow, where he was taken to a quiet place, where he was held down and tortured with knives, which included his eyes being gouged. In unimaginable fear and agony, this innocent boy was then doused in petrol and burned alive. The four animals who did this were muslim men who, when finally arrested (the result of great police work) admitted they’d committed such inhuman acts because Kris was white.
The premeditation, abduction, torture, multiple assailants, and cruelty involved in this heinous act makes what happened to Stephen Lawrence pale into insignificance, particularly as record numbers of stabbings are happening in London today, and the majority of victims are black, just like the perpetrators. What is more, Kris Donald’s abduction, torture, and murder carried out half the time ago of the Lawrence murder. So why is Kris Donald’s case not the one constantly referenced in the discussion of racist violence…is it because his skin colour, and both the skin colour and the ideology of his abductors/torturers/murderers, don’t fit the established left wing narrative? Why isn’t Kris Donald’s mother a Dame, and where are the changes that would stop police forces like South Yorkshire, and many others, covering up or ignoring such crimes as the mass, targeted, multiple gangs rapes over several years, of young, non muslim girls, by muslim rape gangs? Where is the coverage of this appalling act all over the news, where are the countless interviews, the promised changes…the equal treatment of Kris’s horrific, racist murder?