BBC Edits Out References to Trump’s Crackdown in Minneapolis From Broadcast of BAFTA Awards

The BBC has apologized for failing to censor the N-word after a Tourette syndrome campaigner in the audience shouted the racial slur at Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo as they presented the award for Best Visual Effects at the BAFTA awards in London Sunday. The BAFTA awards are the equivalent of the Oscars in Britain. The BBC failed to edit out the word from the broadcast, which aired two hours after the live show, while cutting the phrase “Free Palestine” from an acceptance speech by filmmaker Akinola Davies. They also cut references to President Trump’s crackdown in Minneapolis from the acceptance speech of BAFTA-winning filmmaker David Borenstein, co-director of the documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin. He spoke to Democracy Now on Tuesday. David Borenstein: I have to say, I also, in my speech, compared the importance of resistance in Russia to the importance of resistance in Minneapolis, and that was also taken out of the broadcast. So it seems that a lot of the political speeches were taken out of the broadcast. The BBC reported that another racial slur was edited out from the broadcast and that the N-word had aired by mistake.