Jay Blades recalls being beaten-up by ‘racist’ police officers

OHMYGOSSIP — Jay Blades was brutally beaten-up by “racist” police officers as a teenager.
The ‘Repair Shop’ star has revealed he was just 14 when he was attacked by a gang of police officers in London as he made his way home.
Recalling a police van pulling up alongside him, Jay remembered: “The back doors swung open and there were five or six uniformed policemen sitting in the van waiting for me. They didn’t even bother to search me. They just beat the s*** out of me.
“It was brutal. They were laying into me with fists, feet and truncheons, and all I could do was roll into a ball on the floor of the van and wait, pray, for it to end. It probably lasted two minutes but it felt a lot, lot longer.
“They were laughing, ‘This’ll show you, black b******!’. When they’d had enough they chucked me out and drove off.”
Jay, 51, revealed that similar incidents happened throughout his teenage years.
The London-born TV star also recalled feeling powerless at the time.
He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “It was normal, especially in the 80s. Sometimes you weren’t really badly beaten up. Other times they’d pick you up, beat you up and drive off with you.
“Every now and again you get a kick in the back or a stamp on the arm. They’d throw you out in an area that was predominantly white, and you’d have to find your way out of that area because if the racists saw you there they’d chase you.
“People will be shocked by that, but within the black communities it was a normal occurrence.
“No one reported it, because you’d be reporting it to the racist police. You see so many injustices when you grow up in a poor area, and you know there’s no point in verbalising anything.”

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