£60,000-a-week black Premier League star Danny Rose reveals he is REGULARLY stopped by police driving through his hometown of Doncaster and asked whether his £100k Range Rover is stolen
- Danny Rose says he is targeted by police while driving through his hometown
- Rose says he is regularly stopped and asked if his car – a Range Rover – is stolen
- The England and Tottenham defender also spoke about being unfairly treated because of the colour of his skin while travelling first classs on trains
- Rose’s revelations come shortly after Met Police chief Cressida Dick apologised to athlete Bianca Williams over a heavy-handed stop-and-search
- Williams and her partner were hauled from their Mercedes and handcuffed in front of their three-month old son in Maida Vale, London
Black Premier League star Danny Rose has revealed he is often stopped by police and asked if his car is stolen.
The Tottenham defender, 30, says the most recent incident was just last week while he was driving through his home town of Doncaster.
England international Rose, who earns £60,000 per week in the English top flight and drives a £100,000 Range Rover, also told how he is unfairly treated due to the colour of his skin when sitting in the first-class carriage of a train.
Danny Rose has revealed he is often stopped by police while driving through Doncaster
The 30-year-old revealed how police ask ‘if his car is stolen’ and it happened last week
In the The Player’s Chair podcast with host Richie Sadlier, Rose said: ‘I got stopped by the police last week, which is a regular occurrence whenever I go back to Doncaster where I’m from.
‘And, each time it’s “is this car stolen? Where did you get this car? What are you doing here? Can you prove that you bought this car?”
Rose, who went to Newcastle on loan from Spurs in January, added: ‘That’s been happening since I was 18, since I’ve been driving. And each time it happens, I just laugh and because I know what’s coming and it’s just how it is.
‘Whenever I go on the train, you know, one of the last times I got on the train, I got on there with my bags and straight away the attendant says, “Do you know this is first class?” And I say, “yeah, so what?” and they’ll say, “oh well, let me see your ticket then?”
‘So I show the lady my ticket and this is no word of a lie, two white people walked on the train right after me and oh, she said nothing. And I said, “well, are you not going to ask for their tickets?” And she said, “oh well, no, I don’t need to”.’
Last month Met Police chief Cressida Dick apologised to Team GB sprinter Bianca Williams for the distress her officers caused her in a heavy-handed stop-and-search.
Dame Cressida told the Home Affairs committee she echoed a senior officer who had said ‘I’m sorry’ to the 26-year-old over the incident, which was heavily criticised and branded ‘racial profiling’ after video of it went viral.
Williams and her Portuguese sprinter husband Ricardo dos Santos, 25, were hauled from their Mercedes and handcuffed in front of their three-month-old son in Lanhill Road, Maida Vale.
Commonwealth gold medallist Bianca Williams, 26, and her Portuguese sprinter partner Ricardo dos Santos, 25, were stopped and searched near their London home, with their three-month-old baby on board