2 Police Officers Who Stopped Black Athletes Sacked for Gross Misconduct

A Metropolitan Police disciplinary hearing has found PC Jonathan Clapham and PC Sam Franks guilty of gross misconduct over a stop-and-search incident.

A screengrab from body-worn camera footage of the detention of sprinter Ricardo Dos Santos in Maida Vale, west London, on April 7, 2020. Independent Office for Police Conduct

A Metropolitan Police disciplinary hearing has found the conduct of two officers, PC Jonathan Clapham and PC Sam Franks, amounted to gross misconduct when they pulled over black athletes Bianca Williams and Ricardo Dos Santos and carried out a stop-and-search.

The pair were both immediately sacked following the outcome of the hearing on Wednesday.