It is causing a lot of comments and controversy on the web, a video went viral in which some Milanese policemen are seen checking two people in the street with guns drawn. One of these is Tiémoué Bakayoko, a Milan player, with the intervention that immediately ended when his identity emerged. Some users have argued over the work of the agents, also accusing them of “racism”, or on the contrary, of “giving up everything” as soon as they discovered that the searched was a footballer.
Milan, the Rossoneri Bakayoko (not recognized) stopped by the police
“These are out of place comments – they explain at the police station – the check was triggered because Bakayoko and the other passenger corresponded perfectly, by chance, to the descriptions, and obviously it ended when it was realized that he had stopped a person who had nothing to do with it. “According to what was specified by the State Police, in fact, the previous night there had been fights, even with gunshots (later revealed not with a pistol) between foreigners, and they were looking for a dark SUV with two men on board, one of the two blacks wearing a green shirt.
Corresponding to the alert, at 6 am the following morning, last July 3, the Volanti carried out the check and, since it was a report that followed an episode with possible firearms, the agents operated with guns in hand. The Milan Police Headquarters would have already clarified the matter also with the Rossoneri club.
He spoke on the Amnesty Italia affair. “The images of Bakayoko’s arrest – his Twitter profile – suggest an ethnic profiling. A discriminatory practice that could have serious consequences on an unknown person”: Amnesty Italia writes on its Twitter profile after the video of the control part of the police to the AC Milan player went viral online.
To the journalists who asked him for a comment, the mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Room, he said he saw the video but did not speak to the commissioner. “I would not know, therefore, to comment on it and I would not like to say improper things. I will hear the commissioner”, she said.
The news and the video were also picked up by foreign media. Tiémoué Bakayoko as George Floyd, at least for a moment: the comparison between the footballer and the man killed by the police in Minneapolis in 2020 is recurrent online where the video of the control of the midfielder by the Milan steering wheels has also arrived on the website of the Daily Mail which speaks of the “terrible moment” he experienced.
“He was the victim of racial profiling by the police, with a gun pointed and a vehement search. It seems the deepest America, but it is Milan”, wrote the radicals.
The former secretary of the Fim Cisl, now coordinator of the Base, Marco Bentivogli, instead he commented that “after they found out he was rich and famous, he became incredibly rich white”.
“Bakayoko was about to become the new Floyd” write other surfers on twitter while on the football player’s Instagram profile there are those who invite him to report the agents or simply comment “shame on Milan”, and those who ironically: “It is true that you have not convinced this season but getting rid of you by getting arrested has a bit exaggerated Maldini eh “.
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Police check on Milan player Bakayoko, the video goes viral
It is causing a lot of comments and controversy on the web, a video went viral in which some Milanese policemen are seen checking two people in the street with guns drawn. One of these is Tiémoué Bakayoko, a Milan player, with the intervention that immediately ended when his identity emerged. Some users have argued over the work of the agents, also accusing them of “racism”, or on the contrary, of “giving up everything” as soon as they discovered that the searched was a footballer.
Milan, the Rossoneri Bakayoko (not recognized) stopped by the police
“These are out of place comments – they explain at the police station – the check was triggered because Bakayoko and the other passenger corresponded perfectly, by chance, to the descriptions, and obviously it ended when it was realized that he had stopped a person who had nothing to do with it. “According to what was specified by the State Police, in fact, the previous night there had been fights, even with gunshots (later revealed not with a pistol) between foreigners, and they were looking for a dark SUV with two men on board, one of the two blacks wearing a green shirt.
Corresponding to the alert, at 6 am the following morning, last July 3, the Volanti carried out the check and, since it was a report that followed an episode with possible firearms, the agents operated with guns in hand. The Milan Police Headquarters would have already clarified the matter also with the Rossoneri club.
He spoke on the Amnesty Italia affair. “The images of Bakayoko’s arrest – his Twitter profile – suggest an ethnic profiling. A discriminatory practice that could have serious consequences on an unknown person”: Amnesty Italia writes on its Twitter profile after the video of the control part of the police to the AC Milan player went viral online.
To the journalists who asked him for a comment, the mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Room, he said he saw the video but did not speak to the commissioner. “I would not know, therefore, to comment on it and I would not like to say improper things. I will hear the commissioner”, she said.
The news and the video were also picked up by foreign media. Tiémoué Bakayoko as George Floyd, at least for a moment: the comparison between the footballer and the man killed by the police in Minneapolis in 2020 is recurrent online where the video of the control of the midfielder by the Milan steering wheels has also arrived on the website of the Daily Mail which speaks of the “terrible moment” he experienced.
“He was the victim of racial profiling by the police, with a gun pointed and a vehement search. It seems the deepest America, but it is Milan”, wrote the radicals.
The former secretary of the Fim Cisl, now coordinator of the Base, Marco Bentivogli, instead he commented that “after they found out he was rich and famous, he became incredibly rich white”.
“Bakayoko was about to become the new Floyd” write other surfers on twitter while on the football player’s Instagram profile there are those who invite him to report the agents or simply comment “shame on Milan”, and those who ironically: “It is true that you have not convinced this season but getting rid of you by getting arrested has a bit exaggerated Maldini eh “.
Source: Ansa
I have been working in the news industry for over 10 years now and I have worked for some of the biggest news websites in the world. My focus has always been on entertainment news, but I also cover a range of other topics. I am currently an author at Global happenings and I love writing about all things pop-culture related.
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