A drunk man has been jailed after calling a police station and threatening to bomb them - then launching a racist tirade against the officers sent to arrest him describing them as ‘white b******s’.
Tariq Khan, 49, first made the phone call in the early hours of the morning on Saturday June 6.
Officers sent to arrest Khan, of Crumpsall, found him in a takeaway where they tried to speak to him, but he was ‘highly intoxicated’, Manchester Magistrates Court heard.
The incident escalated when Khan went outside, as he became abusive to officers and used racist language towards them.
As he became increasingly aggressive, officers took him to the ground in an attempt to restrain him, but he kicked out and hit the leg of the female officer.
The officers were concerned he may have spat at them as they heard him clear his throat, so placed a spit hood over his head.
Khan did not spit at them, the court heard.
Pleading guilty to charges of sending a communication conveying a threatening message, assaulting an emergency worker and racially aggravated words or behaviour, Khan was sentenced to 32 weeks imprisonment.
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Outlining the facts of the case, prosecutor Robin Lynch said on Saturday June 6, a call handler for GMP received a call from Khan threatening to ‘bomb the police station’.
“The defendant was actually in a takeaway when officers arrived and they attempted to engage with him but he was clearly intoxicated at the time,” Mr Lynch said.
“Initially he was refusing to speak to the officers, but the incident escalated when he went outside and became abusive to the officers, describing them as ‘white b******s”.
“He was highly intoxicated when he was arrested.
“He was being restrained on the ground when he kicked out and hit the female officer on her leg.
“He then began to clear his throat and officers thought he might spit at them, but he didn’t.
“A spit hood was placed over his head in any case.”
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It was said that Khan continued making racist remarks and threats towards the officers throughout the incident.
In mitigation, his defence lawyer Stephen Munton said his client was last before the courts on May 22 when he was made subject of a community order for an earlier racially aggravated offence.
He was also given a curfew, alcohol treatment programme and rehabilitation activity requirement days.
“He had been discharged from North Manchester Hospital, where he had been as an inpatient,” Mr Munton said.
“On Saturday evening he found himself in a takeaway, he was fairly intoxicated and made a phone call to the police, and as a result that made the police go to the takeaway and he was arrested.
“He was taken to the ground outside the takeaway and as the officers were moving away from him he kicked out.
“He was concerned it was an assault on a female officer, and found it difficult to believe he had assaulted a female officer.
“He now understands and accepts this.
“He thought he was charged with punching someone, but he fully accepts that the charge reads as ‘kicking’, and says he never deliberately struck the officer knowing she was a female and an officer.
“He is fully accepting of his actions.
“The defendant has just got himself some accommodation and he is concerned that a custodial sentence would mean he would not be able to get himself on an even keel.”
Sentencing him to 32 weeks imprisonment, District Judge Jack McGarva said: “You have pleaded guilty at the first opportunity.
“I give you full credit for that.
“This is a serious offence and serious threats were made to the officers and you acted in a racist manner.
“This is so serious that a fine or community sentence would not be justified.”
Khan, whose address was recorded as Juniper Ward Park House at the North Manchester General Hospital on Delaunays Road, was also ordered to pay £156 victim surcharge.