London Daily

Focus on the big picture.
Saturday, Jul 19, 2025

Black man accused of stealing his own car as he cleans out glove box

A black man was accused of stealing his own car in Bristol after a white woman claimed he looked as if he was ‘rifling through the glove box’.
Abdi Kheyre had been cleaning up his Ford Fiesta before its MOT test when the woman approached him in the road and asked for his car’s registration number. He then began filming their exchange, later stating that he was concerned she was going to call the police.

In the clip, he can be heard saying: ‘This white lady thinks I’m robbing my own car because I’m black.’ The woman then asks for his registration number again, before telling him: ‘It looks like you’re rifling through someone’s glove box.’

Mr Kheyre, a university student, tells the woman to call the police as he accused her of being racist. She then denies this, replying: ‘I might do. Don’t be so aggressive. Everything comes down to race now, doesn’t it?’

He recites his registration number, causing her to respond: ‘Brilliant, lovely’. He then repeatedly tells her to ‘get out of here’ and ‘f**k off’, as she starts claiming there is ‘lots of car crime’ in the area.

She then walked away with her bike, only to return again to ‘apologise’ to Mr Kheyre and say they ‘should be mates’, after he told her he lived nearby. In a separate clip he can be heard saying: ‘You assume I am robbing my car because of my colour. Get out of here. I don’t want to talk to you.’

Mr Kheyre, who works at a supermarket alongside his degree, said he had seen three couples walk past him before the woman stopped and ‘stared’. He told Bristol Live: ‘I asked her if she was alright but she said nothing, which I thought was a bit weird. I’d never seen her before.

‘I went back to sorting the documents and then all of a sudden I heard her behind me asking for my registration number. She asked me what it was a few times and that’s when I decided to get my phone out and start recording her, in case she called the police and told them I’d said something I hadn’t.

‘Why did she think I looked suspicious when the three couples who walked past me before her didn’t?’

He went on: ‘She had no right coming up to me when I was just minding my own business and racially profiling me like that. If she was genuinely concerned that I was robbing a car, would she really have come up that close to talk to me? ‘

‘Surely she would have kept her distance and called the police from far away if she thought I was someone who would try to rob a car in broad daylight.’

Mr Kheyre has lived in the area of Bristol for 10 years, describing it as ‘so quiet’ with ‘really friendly’ people. He said he had not been aware of any car crime, and believes the woman only made those comments after realising he owned his vehicle.

According to police.uk data, the area had five instances of vehicle crime in June 2020, while there were 214 instances reported within the same boundary in the past 12 months. That amounts to 5.9% of crime reported in the area that year.

Mr Kheyre’s videos have now been watched by hundreds of thousands of people after he uploaded them to Twitter. He believes the woman ‘100% would not have questioned him’ if he had been a white middle-aged man instead of a ‘young black guy in a tracksuit’.

He continued: ‘When she left I was in shock for a good 10 minutes. I was really young when I encountered racism and didn’t really understand it, but this time I was so shocked and really angry.

‘After I composed myself I messaged the video to my friends and they said I should upload it to raise awareness. Some of the comments have been really unpleasant, but you’re always going to get them sadly.’
Newsletter

Related Articles

0:00
0:00
Close
Brazil's Supreme Court Imposes Radical Restrictions on Former President Bolsonaro
Centrist Criticism of von der Leyen Resurfaces as she Survives EU Confidence Vote
Judge Criticizes DOJ Over Secrecy in Dropping Charges Against Gang Leader
Apple Closes $16.5 Billion Tax Dispute With Ireland
Von der Leyen Faces Setback Over €2 Trillion EU Budget Proposal
UK and Germany Collaborate on Global Military Equipment Sales
Trump Plans Over 10% Tariffs on African and Caribbean Nations
Flying Taxi CEO Reclaims Billionaire Status After Stock Surge
Epstein Files Deepen Republican Party Divide
Zuckerberg Faces $8 Billion Privacy Lawsuit From Meta Shareholders
FIFA Pressured to Rethink World Cup Calendar Due to Climate Change
SpaceX Nears $400 Billion Valuation With New Share Sale
Microsoft, US Lab to Use AI for Faster Nuclear Plant Licensing
Trump Walks Back Talk of Firing Fed Chair Jerome Powell
Zelensky Reshuffles Cabinet to Win Support at Home and in Washington
"Can You Hit Moscow?" Trump Asked Zelensky To Make Putin "Feel The Pain"
Irish Tech Worker Detained 100 days by US Authorities for Overstaying Visa
Dimon Warns on Fed Independence as Trump Administration Eyes Powell’s Succession
Church of England Removes 1991 Sexuality Guidelines from Clergy Selection
Superman Franchise Achieves Success with Latest Release
Hungary's Viktor Orban Rejects Agreements on Illegal Migration
Jeff Bezos Considers Purchasing Condé Nast as a Wedding Gift
Ghislaine Maxwell Says She’s Ready to Testify Before Congress on Epstein’s Criminal Empire
Bal des Pompiers: A Celebration of Community and Firefighter Culture in France
FBI Chief Kash Patel Denies Resignation Speculations Amid Epstein List Controversy
Air India Pilot’s Mental Health Records Under Scrutiny
Google Secures Windsurf AI Coding Team in $2.4 Billion Licence Deal
Jamie Dimon Warns Europe Is Losing Global Competitiveness and Flags Market Complacency
South African Police Minister Suspended Amid Organised Crime Allegations
Nvidia CEO Claims Chinese Military Reluctance to Use US AI Technology
Hong Kong Advances Digital Asset Strategy to Address Economic Challenges
Australia Rules Out Pre‑commitment of Troops, Reinforces Defence Posture Amid US‑China Tensions
Martha Wells Says Humanity Still Far from True Artificial Intelligence
Nvidia Becomes World’s First Four‑Trillion‑Dollar Company Amid AI Boom
U.S. Resumes Deportations to Third Countries After Supreme Court Ruling
Excavation Begins at Site of Mass Grave for Children at Former Irish Institution
Iranian President Reportedly Injured During Israeli Strike on Secret Facility
EU Delays Retaliatory Tariffs Amid New U.S. Threats on Imports
Trump Defends Attorney General Pam Bondi Amid Epstein Memo Backlash
Renault Shares Drop as CEO Luca de Meo Announces Departure Amid Reports of Move to Kering
Senior Aides for King Charles and Prince Harry Hold Secret Peace Summit
Anti‑Semitism ‘Normalised’ in Middle‑Class Britain, Says Commission Co‑Chair
King Charles Meets David Beckham at Chelsea Flower Show
If the Department is Really About Justice: Ghislaine Maxwell Should Be Freed Now
NYC Candidate Zohran Mamdani’s ‘Antifada’ Remarks Spark National Debate on Political Language and Economic Policy
President Trump Visits Flood-Ravaged Texas, Praises Community Strength and First Responders
From Mystery to Meltdown, Crisis Within the Trump Administration: Epstein Files Ignite A Deepening Rift at the Highest Levels of Government Reveals Chaos, Leaks, and Growing MAGA Backlash
Trump Slams Putin Over War Death Toll, Teases Major Russia Announcement
Reparations argument crushed
Rainmaker CEO Says Cloud Seeding Paused Before Deadly Texas Floods
×