Neomi Bennett, a black nurse pulled over by police officers in the United Kingdom because her front windows were tinted too dark, has said she was targeted because of her race.
London police officers surrounded Bennett, who was sitting in her car late one evening in April 2019.
She was dropping off a friend in Wandsworth, south London, The to the marrow, Bennett, 47, who has been working intensive care shift as a locum nurse treating coronavirus patients, was pulled out of the car by male police officers.
“I feel I have to protect myself from the police more than anything else as a black person in London,” Bennett was quoted as saying by the outlet.
After overturning a conviction for obstructing the police during her pullover, Bennett who invented the Neo-slip device used by the NHS to help patients with deep vein thrombosis, plans to file a civil case against the Metropolitan police for wrongful arrest, assault, battery, false imprisonment, and malicious prosecution, according to reports.