A supermarket founder has joined the furious row over two-tier policing by revealing a member of staff was handcuffed in store because of a malicious racism accusation. Iceland founder Sir Malcolm Walker said he made a formal complaint to the Metropolitan Police after one of his staff was seized by officers when a customer made a phoney allegation of racist abuse. Sir Malcolm revealed the Asian store supervisor had remonstrated with a black customer who had been tampering with milk bottles in the supermarket. The knighted entrepreneur said that after the customer phoned the police and made a false allegation of racism police arrived in “three minutes” and handcuffed the staff member.

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