A black firearms officer who is suing the Metropolitan Police for racial and sexual discrimination claims she was a “token” used by the force to try to prove it was diverse.
Carol Howard, 34, said she was put forward for an interview in the wake of the shooting of Mark Duggan, at a time when her unit had a “bad reputation”.
She told an employment tribunal that she was also tasked with driving Baroness Lawrence, the mother of murdered Stephen Lawrence, in what she saw as an attempt by the Met to prove it was no longer racist. – Read More
