The police officer was involved in in arrest of Sheku Bayo told the investigation about his death in guardianship he heard one of Bayo’s ribs break as he attempts to resuscitate him.
PC Craig Walker, who Heard request weighed 25 (158 kg) at the time of Incident in Kirkcaldy in May 2015, said he performed CPR after he and two other officers who tried to contain Baio on Earth realized that he was unconscious.
Walker also said list of descriptive terms used by fellow officers about Baio, including “insane with superhuman strength” – equaled “perception”. He said he didn’t know of stereotypical attitude towards black men and criminal justice.
After he insisted, he did not meet any examples of racial discrimination or racism jokes or comments among colleaguesWalker was asked by QC Claire Mitchell, acting for Baio family, whether comments like “the biggest male I’ve ever seen” are racial stereotypes.
walker, first involved officer in Baio arrest appear for interrogation, replied: “They may mean muscle build. If someone were to tell me that, that would be their judgment.”
The investigation learned that Walker and former PC Alan Paton – first employees answer calls from public about a man brandishing a knife and acting erratically early on Sunday morning – both were 6’4″ in height compared with Baio is 5 feet 10 inches tall.
Baio family campaigned for years for independent inquiry into his death, which they believe was caused positional asphyxia, because of in tactics used by the police. They argue that officers overreacted and were driven by racial bias.
Angela Graham QC Investigation senior counsel asked Walker about how he, Paton and another officer captured Baio on sidewalk. She asked: “At what stage did you lie on Sheku Bayo?”
Walker replied: “I think that part of have to reach through it, the upper part of my body was on his shoulder.”
He said that 31-year- the old one was not flat on its front because its left hand remained under him.
The restraint began, he says, after he witnessed how Baio did “full-force seal” on another officer, Constable Nicole Short.
Walker confirmed that “when we contacted up he was not active in possession of knife or brandishing it.
Asked what role race played in assumptions and choices that were made police that morning, Walker said he “didn’t make any assumptions” and that everything decisions were founded on the threat he posed to us and the participants of in public”.
public the investigation under Lord Brackedale is ongoing.
