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Police's race slur allegation

Updated on 15 March 2006

By Katie Razzall

An officer from Dorset Police has been accused of an unprovoked racist attack last April, Channel 4 News can reveal.


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Channel 4 News has obtained exclusive footage - filmed from a police in-car camera - which shows the officer stopping a black motorist for apparently no reason, then climbing on top of him in the front seat and finally spraying his face - at close range - with CS spray.

Now the man, called Olufemi Ijeeboude from Bournemouth, has complained to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

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