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An investigation's been launched after an Avon and Somerset police | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
officer tasered one of the force's former race relations | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
It was filmed by a neighbour, in what appears to be a case | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
Last Saturday in Easton and two police officers confront a man. | :00:24. | :00:40. | |
They think, mistakenly, that he's someone they want for questioning. | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
One officer's holding a yellow taser weapon. | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
But the man refuses to identify himself. | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
Ras Adunbi says after the taser incident he was taken to hospital, | :00:51. | :01:18. | |
then to a police cell in Patchway before being | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
As a former chairman of the Independent Advisory | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Group on race relations he's furious and thinks that police officers have | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
When they took over they liked to impose their own rules. | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
Neighbours we spoke to also think the use | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
From my experience of police in this area, it's been OK | :01:42. | :01:54. | |
but I just think it is totally unacceptable. | :01:55. | :01:55. | |
Those from black and minority ethnic groups are three | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
times more likely to be tasered by police in the UK. | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
Such discharges don't have to be refered to the The Independent | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
Avon and Somerset Police saying in a statement.... | :02:04. | :02:19. | |
Bristol's main anti-racism charity is also investigating, | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
worried the tasering of such a well known person | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
Young people who have had issues with the police will look | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
at this and say, this is what I have been telling you. | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
This is what can happen just because of the colour of my | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
Ras Adunbi says he was mistaken for the same | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
Back then receiving compensation for an injured shoulder. | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
He said that's why he didn't identify himself this time. | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
Well, earlier I spoke to Ruth Pickersgill - | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
a councillor for Easton in Bristol where this all happened. | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
I asked her if tensions had become raised in the community | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
Well, to be honest, everybody is horrified because everybody knows | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
Ras Adunbi as a respected member of the community. | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
He is very well-known locally and it is not something we | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
expect to see on our streets in broad daylight, | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
We have seen the footage now most of us on the television and I have | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
The main thing for us is, there needs to be | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
a verythorough investigation and it needs to be transparent. | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
People need to be accountable for what happened. | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
The police did not have two review this. | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
I think it is right and proper and I'm pleased they are. | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
Is there a feeling in Easton that the police can be racist? | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
I think that is a really completed question. | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
I think on the whole we work really in Easton and Easton is known | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
for its good community relations and people get | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
The police are very often part of those good community relations. | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
I think in any big institution we always | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
have to keep reviewing whether | :04:16. | :04:16. | |
there is any unconscious bias or anything is going | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
I would say that relations are good in Easton on a whole, | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
The sort of incident can put back race relations for years if it does | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
Do you feel like it's time to look at an | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
I think it needs to be only used when it is | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
I am about the same age and if I had been coming out of my house | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
and I had refused to give my name, I doubt I would have been tasered. | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
There's something about the use of the taser but something about | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
proportionate responses to particular situations. | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
In other news - there have been demonstrations in the West today | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
as Donald Trump became the new American president. | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
Around 300 people turned out in the centre | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
of Bristol this evening to show their disapproval. | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
They're concerned about President Trump's views | :05:09. | :05:09. | |
including his stance on the environment. | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
Princess Anne has officially opened a new building in south | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
Gloucestershire for patients recovering from brain injuries. | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit at Frenchay | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
needed to expand because more people are now surviving serious | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
It has now almost doubled in size to 52 beds. | :05:26. | :05:36. | |
Now the crowds have been flocking to Bristol's Colston Hall tonight | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
for Gala Night at the Slapstick Festival! | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
The five day event celebrates silent, visual and classic comedy - | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
and is now in its 13th year as audience numbers | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
A host of comedy stars have been busy helping to share the magic. | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
We have got a screening of the Freshman, Harold Lloyd. | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
Back in 1925, people who know their silent movies | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
will know he is one of the big heroes along with Buster Keaton | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
Some people might have not seen a silent | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
With an orchestra it will be a very, very special atmosphere. | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
I'm hosting something but I don't know anything about it. | :06:15. | :06:23. | |
If you are interested, the festival is an all weekend. I will wish you a | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
good night. We are feel cooler. Can we keep it going | :06:29. | :07:35. | |
until the start of the new week? I suspect we can. Unconfirmed about -- | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
concerned about the fog around. Here is Helen with the national picture. | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
Good evening. The weather is upon us. The cloud has made all the | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
difference this week in particular. We have had some wonderful weather | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
watcher pictures, this is Marlowe in Buckinghamshire, this was Conwy | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
earlier in the day. Some areas still have the cloud. What a difference | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
that | :08:03. | :08:04. |