Teenager called ‘black c***’ and followed off London bus

Boy claims he was being stared at for journey

A video of the racial abuse was posted on Instagram (@thakidtr)

A teenager has filmed the moment he was racially abused and called a "black c***" by a white passenger on a London bus.

The boy, who has been named in media reports as Trey Robinson, is seen walking down the steps while "get off the bus" is repeatedly heard in the background.

The 17-year-old has shared footage of the incident, which he said started after he noticed another man staring at him during the bus journey in southeast London.

In the video, he asks the pair of white men peering over the stairs: "Why are you staring at me? Is there a racial issue?"

One of the white men continues telling him to get off the bus, and then shouts after Trey: "And you are a black c*** then."

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The man in a navy tracksuit comes down the stairs to stand at the doorway after the teenager is off the bus.

"If you're calling the race card, you may as well be a black c*** then," he says.

Captioning the footage on Instagram, Trey wrote: "Today I believe I was racially abused, and assaulted. I was on the bus and being continuously stared at by a older white male."

He claimed the man was still staring at him as he went to get off the 89 bus headed to Lewisham station in southeast London on Wednesday.

Trey said another man in navy clothes, who claimed the pair were brothers, "started acting aggressively".

Trey said he asked if there was a "racial issue" and was followed off the bus. "I then got punched in my face" after the man saw he had been recording, he said.

He appealed for people to spread awareness of the incident.

"We shouldn’t stay silent about this when we’ve been protesting for awareness for black lives," he said. "Be aware that this is still happening and it’s not okay."