A police force that shot its own race relations adviser with a stun gun in 2017 after mistaking him for a wanted man has once again confused him for the very same person.
Officers from Avon and Somerset police approached Judah Adunbi on Wednesday and asked him if he was Royston McCalla, before driving off laughing, Adunbi has said.
The incident came only six weeks after the force’s chief constable expressed regret about the incident in 2017 in which Adunbi, who has worked to improve relations between the police and Bristol’s black community, was shot in the face with a stun gun after being mistaken for McCalla.
Adunbi, a Rastafarian who is known as Ras Judah, said two officers pulled up alongside him in a police car as he left a shop near his home in Bristol.
“They were shouting ‘Hey Royston, Royston’ but I just kept my head down. They pulled in by the shop and kept calling me ‘Royston’,” he told the Bristol Post. “I decided to ignore them. They were saying: ‘Are you Royston or are you Ras?’”
Adunbi, 64, said the officers were “giggling” about the incident as they drove past him.
“I felt terrible. I walked home and locked my door and didn’t want to go back out.