A senior officer expressed considerations there could also be allegations Sheku Bayoh's race performed an element in his dying in police custody, an inquiry has heard.
Sergeant Scott Maxwell managed the response staff on the day of Might 3 2015, when Mr Bayoh died following reviews he was carrying a knife on the Hayfield Highway in Kirkcaldy, Fife.
He advised the inquiry officers had been instructed to return to Kirkcaldy Police Station after Mr Bayoh had been taken to hospital.
The response staff which had been concerned within the restraint of Mr Bayoh stayed within the canteen for round 12 hours.
On Wednesday, he was requested by senior counsel to the Coalition of Racial Equality and Rights (CRER), Mark Moir QC: "Did you may have any considerations that there could also be allegations that Mr Bayoh's race had performed an element in his dying in police custody through the time you had been within the canteen?"
Sgt Maxwell mentioned: "There have been plenty of issues that went via my thoughts that day.
"If I used to be going to be criminalised or classed as a assassin or something like that.
"It did undergo my head that the race concerned, as a result of media hypothesis, would possibly invoke a response."
Sgt Maxwell mentioned that none of his staff members had raised comparable considerations.
They'd been instructed by extra senior officers, nonetheless, to not focus on the incident.
He added: "At the moment it was extra of a 'do not speak concerning the incident' for everybody's welfare.
"We did not actually talk about something like that."
He had additionally been requested about his resolution making concerning Mr Bayoh's restraints.
Final week, accident and emergency physician Gillian Pickering had advised the inquiry the handcuffs could have hindered CPR makes an attempt.
Sgt Maxwell was requested why he had not eliminated handcuffs earlier than giving CPR.
He mentioned: "On the time, the chest compressions had been extra vital.
"The delay of taking off the handcuffs was second fiddle to getting the rescue compressions in."
Sgt Maxwell advised senior counsel to the inquiry, Angela Grahame QC, he had consciousness of public considerations surrounding the deaths of black males in police custody in England and the US.
He claimed this had not been mentioned inside Police Scotland.
In his coaching to develop into a sergeant, he claimed he had not been supplied any enhanced equality and variety coaching and was not conscious of any in his 14 years since leaving Tulliallan Police School.
The inquiry heard he had beforehand labored as a neighborhood officer within the Templehall space of Fife for round two years.
Throughout this time, he served because the mosque liaison officer for the Kirkcaldy Central Mosque.
Sgt Maxwell mentioned this put him in an excellent place to establish racist behaviour.
He added: "Wish to suppose I had contact with the vast majority of the individuals in Kirkcaldy within the Templehall space.
"And once more, via interplay with the mosque.
"And likewise coping with reviews of racist behaviour.
"Investigating crime, so I would prefer to suppose that, sure, I'm in an excellent place to establish any discriminatory or racial behaviour."
Sgt Maxwell additionally mentioned he didn't come into contact with the black neighborhood in Kirkcaldy usually.
He added: "There was just a few people who we handled frequently that had been concerned in shoplifting and medicines.
"There have been just a few interactions with black people as suspects however, once more, they do not get handled any totally different as I might cope with a white suspect or Asian suspect.
"It is not any totally different.
"I attempt to deal with everyone as a person.
"It is not: they're black so they need to be handled a sure method.
"That simply does not occur."
The inquiry will hear proof from Ashley Wyse on Wednesday afternoon, a neighbour who witnessed the incident on Sunday Might 3 2015.
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