A race relations adviser tasered in the face by police in a case of mistaken identity says they have mixed him up with the same wanted man — again.
Judah Adunbi, of the UK, was blasted with a taser by police officer Claire Boddie in 2017 after she mistook him for Royston McCalla. Adunbi said he became agitated when Boddie approached him on that occasion because he had been mistaken for McCalla eight years before.
But just weeks after Boddie was cleared by a disciplinary hearing, Adunbi says cops approached him, mistaking him for McCalla yet again.
Adunbi said: “They pulled in by the shop and kept calling me ‘Royston.’ I decided to ignore them. They were saying ‘Are you Royston or are you Ras?”
The moment Adunbi was tasered in the face by a police officer in Bristol.SWNS.comAs a Rastafarian elder, Adunbi is known in the community as Ras Judah.
“There was one male officer and one female officer in the car. They were shouting this and then as they drove away past me, they were giggling about it.
“I felt terrible. I walked home and locked my door and didn’t want to go back out. To think this has happened again and they were joking about it, winding me up.
“They had enough time to look at me and know it was me. Millions of people have seen the video of me, the police ought to know me by now, the police ought to know where I live now, that this is my street.
“Surely it is impossible for them to even try to suggest this. I knew they were having a joke because if they did think I was Royston, they would’ve come in the shop, but they waited until I came out so they could drive past me,” he added.
SWNS.comA police spokesperson confirmed the incident, saying: “Officers on patrol in a marked car drove alongside a man in Chelsea Road yesterday evening, October 17, to ask for his name, as they thought he might be a man wanted for an offense,” he said.
“The man was asked to confirm his name but he didn’t reply,” he said.
“On closer look, officers were able to establish the man wasn’t the wanted suspect and they drove off.
“We fully accept the man the officers spoke to wasn’t the man we’re trying to trace,” he added.
