Nigerian police officer, Dolapo Opeyemi Badmus, has said that tattoo, dreadlocks don’t make people irresponsible as long as they express themselves in a modest way.
The former Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police Command made this known in her post during her speech at Social Media Week 2020 (SMW) in Lagos on Wednesday.
She urged Nigerians to resist the intimidation of any law enforcement officer trying to arrest them simply because they have tattoos on their bodies or dreadlocks on their heads.
She also said this in a tweet on Thursday morning, after she joined the panelists of the social media week seminar to address the topic – “Social Media Wars- Dreads, Tattoos, and Passwords’.
“HAVING TATTOO ON YOUR BODY OR DREADLOCKS ON YOUR HEAD DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MAKE YOU A CRIMINAL. Resist the intimidation of any law enforcer who wants to use that as a basis to terrorize you by remaining calm, firm, courteous and insisting on not being a criminal for having that,” she said.
See her tweet below;
As expected questions were asked on why bearers of tattoos and dreadlocks were always subject of harassment and intimidation from the law enforcers.? Various rational suspected to may have been the cause were discussed.
— Dolapo Badmos (@Opetodolapo) February 27, 2020
"HAVING TATTOO ON YOUR BODY OR DREADLOCKS ON YOUR HEAD DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MAKE YOU A CRIMINAL.Resist the intimidation of any law enforcer who wants to use that as basis to terrorize you by remaining calm,firm, courteous and insisting on not being a criminal for having that.
— Dolapo Badmos (@Opetodolapo) February 27, 2020
