Officers who wrongly arrested, pepper sprayed and kicked a star of Netflix series Sex Education after a police chase have been cleared of assault by a watchdog.
The Metropolitan Police officers' use of force to detain Reece Richards after he was mistaken for a suspect 'was reasonable in the circumstances', the Independent Office for Police Conduct has ruled.
The actor, who played Eugene in the popular show, told of being sprayed with an incapacitating liquid, thrown to the ground and kicked by officers when he was arrested in Fulham, west London, last September.
Now the IOPC says an investigation found 'no indication that any officers acted in a manner that would justify the bringing of disciplinary proceedings or had committed a criminal offence'.
There have been allegations that Richards was the victim of 'racial profiling' - but the watchdog also did not uphold a complaint by him that he was treated in a discriminatory manner because he was black.
