Police ‘Not Racist’ Says Black Candidate Running for Mayor of London

Shaun Bailey, Conservative candidate for the Mayor of London, delivers a speech on the third day of the Conservative Party Conference at Manchester Central in Manchester, England, on Oct. 1, 2019. Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

To say that all police officers are racist is a “ridiculous assertion” according to Shaun Bailey, a black candidate hoping to be the next Conservative Mayor of London since the UK’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, left the post in 2016.

“I don’t believe the police are racist, not all police officers are racist. I think that is a ridiculous assertion,” Bailey said in an interview on Friday on Chopper’s Politics, the Telegraph’s weekly political podcast.