The scale of the discrimination faced by people from minority ethnic backgrounds at the hands of European police forces has been detailed in an EU agency report marking the anniversary of the killing of George Floyd by an officer in the US. A third of Roma in both Croatia and Greece were stopped compared with 18% and 17% of the wider population. Officers searched or asked one in three minority ethnic people for their identity papers compared with 14% of the general population, defined as all groups surveyed. Four in five people in the general population said police treated them respectfully, compared with 46% from minority groups. In some countries, more than 80% of minority ethnic people surveyed perceived their most recent police stop as an example of profiling.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 25, 2021 03:56 UTC