A black teenager has been stopped and searched 60 times in two years, police oversight has revealed. He called for a review of the use of “intrusive” powers.
The Independent Police Conduct Service has outlined a number of discriminatory and biased uses of harassment and search, which it says undermine public confidence in the police and marginalize blacks and ethnic minorities.
A 12-year-old black child, with a plaster cast on one arm, was handcuffed within 20 seconds by an employee, although the child, who was carrying out an order for his mother, assisted.
Black men were stopped for watching police cars, driving a car that officials said was “typical” of drug dealers, looking “nervous” around police or
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