Title: Zuby arrested on 7/7/2008
Description: at Bournemouth Train Station
Description: at Bournemouth Train Station
amirrortotheenemy - July 21, 2008 02:06 AM (GMT)
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| Man mistakenly detained at train station Published: July 7, 2008 at 7:08 PM BOURNEMOUTH, England, July 7 (UPI) -- Police in Bournemouth, England, said a man was being offered "appropriate support" after he was mistakenly detained by armed officers at a railway station. Dorset County police said the 21-year-old man was falsely identified by an officer traveling on a train as a wanted man, and armed officers ordered him to exit the train and lie down on the platform, The Sun reported Monday. The man was released a few minutes later after officers searched and questioned him in a bathroom at the train station. © 2008 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. </a> |
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| Oxford graduate Zuby held at gunpoint by police at Bournemouth station By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent Last Updated: 11:14AM BST 09/07/2008 An innocent Oxford University graduate who was wrongly held at gunpoint by police in a dramatic raid at a train station has told how he felt he was part of a "terrifying" bad dream. Nzube Udezue, a hip hop musician who uses the nickname Zuby, was confronted by up to five armed police officers training their weapons on him as he stepped off a train in Bournemouth. They had been tipped off by a plain-clothes officer on board who said a man wearing a dark T-shirt was threatening people with an imitation firearm. However the officers wrongly targeted the 21-year-old in a case of mistaken identity which bore chiling echoes of the case of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian shot dead three years ago. Mr Udezue said he was "happily listening to my iPod" when he was shouted to the ground. "I've never been so traumatised in my life," he said. "It took me a couple of seconds to realise it was me all those guns were aimed at. I felt I'd stepped off the train and into a really bad dream." Mr Udezue said he was picked out because he was wearing a black T-shirt. He was dragged to a toilet cubicle - out of sight of the public - handcuffed and searched for a gun before being taken to a police station. "It didn't take them too long to realise they got the wrong guy." Dorset Police have apologised for the mistake and the incident will be investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. <a href='http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2273907/Oxford-graduate-Zuby-held-at-gunpoint-by-police-at-Bournemouth-station.html' target='_blank'>Source |
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| 09 Jul 2008 My Mistaken Arrest - What happened on Saturday (RE-POSTED BLOG) Category: Blogging NOTE: This is the original blog that I posted at around 1:30AM on Sunday July 6th, following Saturday evening's incident. I took it down temporarily but have decided to re-post it as it is already being quoted and some articles have implied that it was an interview. When I woke up this Saturday morning, I could happily say that I'd managed to get through (almost) 22 years of my life without any real incident with the police. I could also say that I'd never had a gun pointed at me. Little did I know that by 6:10pm. I'd be lying face down on the ground, handcuffed, with several submachine guns pointed at me and the entire county's Specialist Police Firearms Unit on me. And it's all because I wore this T-shirt.  Allow me to explain... As I was saying, my day started out pretty normally. Woke up, usual morning rituals, packed my bag and drove to Bournemouth train station to catch the 10:45am train to Southampton, where I spent the day promoting and selling my music. 25 CDs and 3 T-shirts sold - good day so far. 5:24pm, I hop onto the train back to Bournemouth, looking forward to a hardcore gym session. 6:09pm, the train pulls into Bournemouth station and all hell is about to break loose. The next 30 seconds was like a blur. GET DOWN! PUT YOUR HANDS ABOVE YOUR HEAD! EVERYBODY CLEAR THE AREA! It took me a couple of seconds to realise that it was ME that all those guns were aimed at. And not just pistols either, but these as well:  GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES! PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR HEAD! Are they seriously talking to me? I honestly felt like I'd stepped off the train and into a really bad dream. LIE DOWN FLAT! PUT YOUR HANDS IN FRONT OF YOU! I oblige. I'm shocked, confused, scared and embarrassed all at the same time. Most of the bystanders have vacated the platform by now, by police order. And I'm not talking about normal police either. This is the Specialist Firearms Unit, about 8 of them, machine guns, bulletproof vests, police dogs and all. And they're here to arrest ME! (click) Handcuffed. I still don't have a frickin' clue what's going on, until they inform me that I'm being arrested on suspicion of a Section 1 firearms incident…a what? I was as confused as you are. Quick frisk, they find no gun on me (surprise surprise). Next thing you know I'm being led to the staff room at the station where they search me again and tell me that I'm under arrest for allegedly assaulting someone with a firearm in Basingstoke...BASINGSTOKE??? Again, I try to explain to them that they've got the wrong person and even show them my return ticket from Southampton to Bournemouth, but they insist on marching me out of the station, cuffed like I'm an armed convict, and into their police car. On the way to the station, they tell me that when I get there I'll be questioned and detained but that I have the right to speak to a solicitor while in custody. SOLICITOR? CUSTODY??? I still think that I'm having a bad dream as I continuously explain to them that I'm really just an innocent musician and university graduate (with no criminal record) and that this whole thing is one REALLY big mistake. They're still not convinced though. They radio someone and say that 'the suspect has been apprehended.' When I get to the station, I ask them what exactly I've been arrested for. It appears that someone whose description I matched (a black male wearing a dark T-shirt with bright orange writing) was involved in an altercation in Basingstoke and had threatened someone with a handgun. The description was passed through Hampshire, Dorset and the British Transport Police and boom - a plain clothes officer sees me sitting on the train (happily listening to my iPod and unaware of my impending doom), alerts HQ that 'the gunman is on the train' (the GUNMAN??) and the Firearms Unit is deployed to Bournemouth train station to confront me. Wow huh? Fortunately at the police station it didn't take them too long to realise that they got the wrong guy. After a lot of apologies they un-handcuffed and said that Zuby is free to walk the streets again. I've never been so traumatised in my life. And to think that I was gonna wear a blue T-shirt this morning. 1, Zuby Source Comments Yo Zuby ...when I saw you all over the front of the metro, I thought wow Zuby musta got a hit record!!.... Lol.... I was wrong! So did the beast get you all up in his DNA Database? .... cos man that would be like the ultimate insult on top of this. As for dude in Basingstoke train station .... don't they have Cameras there? (you know UK got the most surveillance on the planet) .... has anybody seen any evidence whatsoever that dude in Basingstoke with the Zuby-esque Tshirt and Pistol even existed??..... or was this some kind of propoganda stage show for the media ( notice they cleared the platform of any REAL witnesses - like you're a threat to anybody else - spreadeagled on the floor with 10 sub machine guns pointed at yer head!). Man the pigs are trying to give themselves license to shoot us dead on sight without even having to be answerable or accountable in any way .... jus like how the did Jean Charled De Mendez... we're starting to see now what the implementation of all their fake-ass fabricated terror laws is really about. These young gang youts need to realise they're makin us all a target .... all the propoganda that's being generated off the back of their bullshit is marching us straight into a Nazi state where every non-white person (and even some white) is a target, and expendable without even really needing an excuse. And people need to remember who employs the police force ... WE DO!! .... to protect US!! Anyway man I'm glad as hell you're still alive. ! Peace and Hiphop. 1. Posted by AFROSAXON on 10 Jul 2008, 08:37 |
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| UPDATE: Zuby speaks about ordeal Chris Baraniuk Saturday, 12 July 2008 A week after his 'shocking' ordeal at Bournemouth train station, Zuby has spoken to Cherwell about the incident and how events unfolded. Cherwell: How did you feel as events unfolded? What were your initial emotional reactions? Zuby: I felt extremely scared, I was confused, it was shocking. It was crazy because I had had a completely normal day up until that point and then police were pointing guns at me and handcuffing me while I had no idea why. My mind was racing, and it was surreal. C: After the arrest on the platform, how long did it take before the police confirmed that you were not the suspect? What happened during that time? Z: It was about 30-40 minutes before they confirmed it. From the force of their response, you could tell that they, for their part, were 100% certain that I was the guy they wanted. After the arrest I was still in a state of shock and really confused. They told me I was under Section 1 arrest for a firearms offence in Basingstoke - I hadn't even been to Basingstoke. 30-40 minutes didn't feel like a short time when I was there - and I had no idea how long it would take before they could confirm my identity. C: You have had a lot of support from your friends - that much is visible from Facebook - how helpful has that been for you? Z: My friends' support has been great. The main support I've had has been from my family, though. They all heard about it and have been great. My fans too have been very supportive. C: There has been a lot of press interest in what happened - have you found it intrusive? Z: The press have definitely been intrusive, especially on Tuesday and Wednesday. I was getting thousands of emails, they were even coming to my house, parked outside, ringing the doorbell. It was pretty crazy. It's weird, though, because, like lots of my friends are saying, I've spent so much time trying to promote my music and then this happens and suddenly the whole country is paying attention. C: Speaking of your music, would you mind telling us what you're working on at the moment? Z: On that Saturday I had just been in Southampton promoting my new album, 'The Unknown Celebrity'... It's being received really well. The incident at Bournemouth has, I guess, introduced a lot more people to what I do. Source |
amirrortotheenemy - July 21, 2008 02:15 AM (GMT)
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| Nzube Udezue: less innocent than most? Does a black graduate's gunpoint ordeal at Bournemouth station lift the ugly corners of racial profiling, or were the police using common sense? July 9, 2008 11:57 AM He was black. He was wearing a black T-shirt with orange writing. And at 6.10pm on Saturday, Nzube Udezue, a 21-year-old Oxford University graduate, was face down on the platform at Bournemouth station with guns pointed at his head. Ah yes - he was also innocent. Leaving aside the fact that Udezue, an aspiring rap artist known among his mates as Zuby, has endured a lyric-inspiring experience to make even Jay-Z jealous, what do you think of what happened? Racism? Police brutality? Or, as the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) decided after just a few hours consideration, were the actions of Dorset police "appropriate and proportionate to the circumstances"? Glancing at the chain of events that led up to Udezue's wrongful arrest, you might side with the IPCC - even though there are reasons to be distrustful of the complaints body. But look at the detail. This is how Saturday's events unfolded: 3.49pm A man waves an imitation firearm in the air at an indoor shopping centre in Basingstoke. Hampshire police later circulate a description of the man. 5.24pm Thirty miles away in Southampton, Udezue, a recent computer science graduate, boards a train headed for Bournemouth. So far it has been a normal day for Udezue, selling his CDs. He sits down and listens to his iPod. At some point, plain clothes British Transport police decide Udezue could have been involved in the Basingstoke incident. 6.09pm Udezue's train pulls into Bournemouth station, where a specialist team of officers are waiting, guns poised. He is arrested and taken to police station. Suspecting that an armed man was on the train, can the cops be blamed for this reaction? I assume the view inside Dorset constabulary, where an internal inquiry is under way with "supervision" from the IPCC, is that their boys made the right call. The local Conservative MP, Tobias Ellwood, told me he would be standing behind the police. He pointed out that despite Udezue's dramatic account of his experience on his blog, he has not lodged any formal complaint.* But should we be asking more questions? The imitation firearms incident took place in Basingstoke. Udezue boarded his train in Southampton. Dorset police were only told about the imitation firearm incident "just before" the train pulled in. Why the two-hour delay? Crucially, exactly what description led the plain clothes officer to identify Udezue as a potentially armed criminal? And then there's that question that no one has so far asked: are there issues here to do with racial profiling? I'm not proposing an answer to this, but take a look at Zuby's website for a flavour of his hip-hop image. Better still, check out his YouTube music video, set to the quaint background of Oxford University. Do you think the police reaction would have been the same if Udezue matched the description of a white commuter in a suit? Source |
*according to the below BBC report the IPCC are investigating
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| Page last updated at 09:58 GMT, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 10:58 UK Rapper traumatised by gun arrest A rapper who was arrested at gunpoint in a case of mistaken identity has written about the moment he stepped off a train into a "really bad dream". Nzube Udezue, 21, a University of Oxford graduate, was ordered to lie face-down and handcuffed by armed police at Bournemouth train station. In his internet blog, Mr Udezue, known as Zuby, said he has "never been so traumatised" in his life. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating. The arrest followed an alleged firearms incident in Basingstoke, Hampshire, just before 1800 BST on Saturday. Mr Udezue, who was wearing a black T-shirt with orange writing, matched a description of the suspect. He was identified on a train from Southampton to Bournemouth by British Transport Police after Hampshire police had alerted them. But the computer science graduate had been promoting his music in Southampton and was returning home. In his blog, the self-proclaimed "rap star", said he had been looking forward to a gym session when "all hell broke loose". "It took me a couple of seconds to realise that it was me that all those guns were aimed at. "I honestly felt like I'd stepped off the train and into a really bad dream. "I'm shocked, confused, scared and embarrassed all at the same time. "Most of the bystanders had vacated the platform by now, by police order. "And I'm not talking about normal police either. This is the Specialist Firearms Unit, about eight of them, machine guns, bullet proof vests, police dogs and all. "And they're here to arrest me!" No shots fired He said he was told he was being arrested on suspicion of a section one firearms incident. Mr Udezue, who quipped in his blog that he has "managed 22 years of life without any real incident with the police", was taken to Bournemouth police station where it became clear that it was a case of mistaken identity. In a statement, Dorset Police said: "The 21-year old Bournemouth man was taken to Bournemouth police station but it quickly became clear that it was a case of mistaken identity and he was released immediately. "During the arrest at Bournemouth railway station, no shots were fired and no one was injured." The force said a senior officer had visited Mr Udezue and his family and that an apology had been made. "Dorset Police are continuing to provide ongoing support to the innocent man - as well as his family - after the appointment of a dedicated family liaison officer," the statement added. Meanwhile, the IPCC has requested Dorset Police's Professional Standards Department investigate the three forces involved - Dorset, Hampshire and BTP. At the end of the blog entry, Mr Udezue joked: "And to think I was going to wear a blue T-shirt this morning." Source |
amirrortotheenemy - July 21, 2008 02:21 AM (GMT)
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| Commuter Nzube Udezue files complaint over armed arrest ordeal * Paul Lewis * guardian.co.uk, * Monday July 14, 2008 [Oxford graduate recounts arrest ordeal Nzube Udezue revisits Bournemouth train station, where he was mistakenly arrested at gunpoint] Link to this video Nzube Udezue revisits scene of arrest An innocent commuter mistakenly detained at gunpoint has filed an official complaint over his arrest after it emerged that he did not match the description of the armed suspect police had been seeking. Nzube Udezue, 21, an Oxford University graduate, was ordered to the ground, handcuffed and arrested by a team of armed officers after disembarking a train at Bournemouth station on Saturday. It had been thought that Udezue, who boarded his train in Southampton, directly matched the description of another man seen earlier in the day brandishing an imitation firearm 30 miles away in Basingstoke. Dorset police have repeatedly insisted that Udezue had no complaints - and nothing more to say - about his wrongful arrest. But in his first interview since the ordeal, Udezue said police had since admitted the Basingstoke suspect had been described as black, with short hair and wearing a brown T-shirt with orange writing. Udezue, who had a shaven head, was wearing a black T-shirt with orange writing and long white sleeves. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) took just a few hours this week to deem the actions of Dorset police "appropriate and proportionate to the circumstances". The complaints watchdog decided not to launch a full investigation, instead opting to "supervise" an internal inquiry by the Dorset force. Udezue's solicitor has filed an official complaint to the IPCC, calling for a full and independent investigation. A commissioner from the complaints body is expected to visit Udezue this week. In a statement that appeared to concede the IPCC had not been told about the mix-up, the complaints body said: "The IPCC decided that Dorset police's actions in stopping Nzube Udezue were appropriate and proportionate in the circumstances because the force's account to the IPCC was that they were acting on intelligence that at the time was believed to be correct." Revisiting the station platform for the first time, Udezue, an aspiring hip-hop musician, recounted the moment he was forced to the ground by officers pointing handguns and submachine guns at his head. "What I felt was fear, primarily, but then confusion and embarrassment," he said. "I was completely compliant with their orders. But it's something that could have gone wrong. I can imagine very easily that a different person could have reacted in a different way. That would have had terrible consequences." It was an altercation in Basingstoke shopping centre hours earlier that resulted in Udezue's arrest. Two men - one carrying an object that "looked like a gun" - fled the scene, according to an account of the incident police have given to his family. [the missing CCTV appeal?] Hampshire police put out a description of the suspected armed man as black and wearing a brown T-shirt. Two transport police officers identified Udezue, who was wearing a black T-shirt, as that man as he sat on the train listening to his iPod. During the next 30 minutes there was a crucial failure in communication over the colour of Udezue's T-shirt. It was described by the transport police officers as "brown", and then became described as "dark". A firearms team was dispatched to Bournemouth station and, just after 6pm, Udezue was apprehended on the platform. The following day, a dramatic image of the moment he was ordered to the ground was released, prompting comparisons with the case of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian man mistakenly shot dead by police after the failed July 21 bomb attacks. Udezue wrote an account of his experience on his blog to try to assure friends who may have heard of his arrest. "People who saw me must have thought: what's Zuby done?" he said. His blog entry was written in a light-hearted style. "When I woke up this Saturday morning, I could happily say that I'd managed to get through (almost) 22 years of my life without any real incident with the police. I could also say that I'd never had a gun pointed at me," he wrote. "Little did I know that by 6.10pm. I'd be lying face down on the ground, handcuffed, with several submachine guns pointed at me and the entire county's specialist police firearms unit on me." Udezue now says he has important grievances. It was only once in the patrol car, for example, and after repeatedly telling officers that he was an Oxford graduate who had not been anywhere near Basingstoke, that police began to doubt themselves. "At that point, one of them said to the other: 'He certainly doesn't seem like the regular customer'." After a brief stop at the police station, the officers offered Udezue a cup of tea, apologised, and drove him back to Bournemouth station. He was not informed him he had the right of complaint. He then travelled home alone. When he arrived, still shaking, he was unable to place his keys in his front door. A senior officer only came to the family home to apologise for the incident after Udezue's distraught family phoned the station demanding the visit. Udezue's family want an explanation for the failure in communication that led to his arrest. They are also angry that Dorset police and the local MP, Tobias Ellwood, who has come out in support of the force, "assumed" that the computer science graduate had no complaints. "There seems to be an understanding that [Udezue] recognises that these things can happen," Ellwood has said. "I think it is important that police don't fear stepping in for fear of reprisals if they get the wrong person." Udezue, who is of Nigerian descent, believes his race was not pivotal to his wrongful arrest, but should still form a part of any investigation. "As the person who experienced this, I don't think [race] is a core issue," he said. "I think where race may be an issue is the point at which somebody jumped to the conclusion that I was the suspect – based on a description that was not precise. It's possible that being a black person in an area where there isn't a lot of black people – that a conclusion could have been jumped to." Asked about Udezue's complaints, Dorset police said in a statement: "It would be inappropriate to comment further because of the investigation by Dorset police's professional standards department into the incident which is being supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission." "I don't want to damn the police," Udezue said. "I know they do a hard job. I just want to make sure this never happens again. Because it could happen to anyone." Source |
indisguise - July 21, 2008 09:03 AM (GMT)
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Zuby’s Blog!!! (sometimes it’s deep. sometimes it’s relevant. sometimes it’s just plain random.) |
indisguise - July 21, 2008 12:47 PM (GMT)
From an earlier posting on Zuby's blog.
Although there is no credit, we can guess what blog inspired Zuby, eh StefZ?
Although there is no credit, we can guess what blog inspired Zuby, eh StefZ?
indisguise - July 22, 2008 07:26 PM (GMT)
The police play on the image of being inefficient or bumbling.
I suggest that the first policeman to identify Zuby as a suspected gunman knew fully well who he was - he did have his name on his t-shirt FFS. It would only take typing Zuby into a search engine to confirm his identity.
I suggest that the first policeman to identify Zuby as a suspected gunman knew fully well who he was - he did have his name on his t-shirt FFS. It would only take typing Zuby into a search engine to confirm his identity.
indisguise - August 14, 2008 08:33 AM (GMT)
