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It was last Friday when Benjamin Antwi, 40, was coming home from work as a salesman in a department store in Copenhagen that the incident occurred.
The passport controller at border control in Hyllie asks to see Benjamin Antwi’s passport. The inspector can see the passport, but then the border police arrive and ask Benjamin Antwi to accompany them.
He said no.
The policeman asks Benjamin Antwi to remove his headphones.
– But I have lowered the music and I listen to what it says. I ask him why I should take off my headphones.
The police say that they are conducting a police check and that Benjamin Antwi will accompany them to the exit, but he does not want to.
Why don’t you go with the police?
– It is not my duty to accompany a policeman just because he says so. It must have a reason, a reason. Should all dark-skinned people continue on the train for no reason?
Ewa-Gun Westford, the police spokesman, tells SVT, who first reported the incident, that the train policeman wanted to do a lengthy review and that he told Benjamin Antwi.
He tells Kvällposten that the film circulating online does not offer a complete picture.
– If we do an extra check, the person will get off the train, he says and continues:
– But here an irritation arises because the person does not want to get on the train. But they informed her that she was going to get off the train for an in-depth check and a PL-19, the police wanted to look in her bag.
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The police have denounced Benjamin Antwi for violent resistance.
– When he didn’t want to get off the train, the police took him out. At the door, he starts tapping his body and two agents take him out, then there is a report of violent resistance. After that, the on-duty preliminary investigation leader decided he was allowed to leave, says Ewa-Gun Westford.
Benjamin Antwi says he has also reported the incident.
– I am not the one who goes to the police and makes the resistance they say. They are the ones who are attacking me and then I am resisting them.
He says he is not comfortable traveling on the Öresund trains.
– It’s very difficult, I feel like it’s a violation. Every time I see the police on the train, I feel anxious.
For ten years, Benjamin Antwi has traveled between Malmö and Copenhagen. According to him, the police have detained him many times. You think it depends on the color of your skin.
– This is a fear that has accumulated over the years. Now it seems that it has gotten much stronger.
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