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Motor racing-Hamilton dons '#EndSARS' T-shirt for pre-race interview

Published 25/10/2020, 14:35
Updated 25/10/2020, 14:36

Oct 25 (Reuters) - Six-times Formula One world champion
Lewis Hamilton donned a T-shirt protesting against police
violence in Nigeria for a pre-race television interview at the
Portuguese Grand Prix on Sunday.
Nigerians have been demonstrating for weeks against a police
unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), which rights groups
have for years accused of extortion, harassment, torture and
murders.
"I've got to show this," Hamilton, Formula One's only Black
driver, told Sky Sports television as he revealed a green
T-shirt with #EndSARS written on it at the end of the off-grid
interview.
The Briton reverted to his usual 'Black Lives Matter'
T-shirt for the officially-sanctioned pre-race anti-racism
gesture on the starting grid.
Formula One's governing body last month set out new pre- and
post-race rules for driver attire after Hamilton wore a T-shirt
on the Tuscan Grand Prix grid with the words "Arrest the cops
who killed Breonna Taylor" on the front.
Taylor, a Black medical worker, was killed by police
officers who burst into her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky,
in March. "Lots of rules have been written for me over the years and
that hasn't stopped me," Hamilton said when the new rules were
announced.

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