Are we listening to the brokenhearted?

Our country’s 200m sprinter, Bianca Williams, said she was ‘heartbroken’ to be dragged from her car by police, and away from her baby.

I watched the video and found it hard to watch and hear a mother’s cries for her baby. There were a variety of public responses – can I gently ask how you responded?

Some people claimed she must have been doing something wrong to be stopped by the police. Some said she needed to be more compliant. Some dismissed her claim of being racially profiled, with a ‘Yeah, but the police stop more black people because more black people commit crime.’ And some said ‘Heartbreaking’.