This is The Guardian.

I think what was especially baffling is the fact that no one actually came to speak to Michael B. Jordan or to Delo

Rylindo after the event.

Michael B. Jordan has basically said that he was repulsed and also that his family who witnessed him were very upset too. Other cuts were made from the program, speech giving saying Free Palestine was cut. The BBC say, well our edit was being done from a truck, we couldn't hear it. But I mean, it doesn't wash, does it? It doesn't wash and it kind of beg his belief.

I can't emphasise enough how much this is a failure of the BBC.

The BBC is under fire for its handling of a racial slur heard during Sunday's BAFTA award ceremony from someone with Tourette syndrome.

From The Guardians today in Focus, this is the latest with me Lucy Hall.

I'm joined by Jason Okendaya, who is assistant opinion editor at The Guardian. So you were at the

Bafters on Sunday night when this incident took place. It sounds like Bafta and the BBC had done

quite a lot of work to prepare the audience

who were there physically for the fact that there was going to be a member of the audience

with Tourette's syndrome, that audience member being John Davidson on whom the film, I swear, is based.

Yeah, so John Davidson was initially introduced. you know, he stood up, there was

applause, he waved at us, and there was just, you know, a good explanation that, you know,

this is an inclusive space. John does have this tick disorder and that, you know, if we hear any

kind of sounds or even profanities, then this is due to the condition. So that was made very clear

from the outset. But things obviously became very

difficult when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage, presenting an award. The stars of

the acclaimed film, Sinners. And a very offensive word was said. What was the reaction of the room?

Well, it was interesting because, you know, I have a decent understanding of Tourette's anyway and we did have the kind of context of, you know, the fact that he had this condition. So when it was, you know, then blurted out, I just thought, oh, this is really unfortunate and I felt the kind of awkwardness and actually seeing Delroy and Michael there on the stage and seeing the sort of colour and restrained for their face, that was quite sad. And it just felt like a situation which I just thought, oh, this is just unfortunate. It's like this is a really sad thing that has happened. And it doesn't feel like it was in an evisbitability, but it felt like something that was a risk in that physically situation. And I also felt sad for John as well because I just

thought, you know, if he, you know, he works as a caretaker in Scotland. He's been a campaigner, but

ultimately, like, this is not like his industry. It's not where the centre of his work is. Obviously,

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