UK Tribunal: Scotland Yard Undermined Black Female Police Officer

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LONDON (AP) — London Metropolitan Police Wednesday expressed disappointment about an employment tribunal’s finding that police discriminated against a Black female officer because of her gender and race.

The tribunal said 35-year-old Carol Howard, a firearms officer in the Diplomatic Protection Group, had been “singled out and targeted” as a Black woman.

It said police aggressively undermined Howard when she joined the overwhelmingly male and White unit. It said police wrongly questioned her honesty, suspected her of tampering with sickness records and improperly questioned her about her private life. – Read More

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