A black teenager was stopped and searched 60 times in two years, the police watchdog has revealed. It has called for use of the “intrusive” powers to be overhauled. The Independent Office for Police Conduct outlined a litany of discriminatory and biased uses of stop and search that it said were eroding public confidence in policing and marginalising black and ethnic minority people. SponsoredA 12-year-old black child, with a plaster cast on one hand, was placed in handcuffs within 20 seconds by an officer despite the child, who was running an errand for his mother, co-operating. Black men have been stopped for looking at police cars, driving in a car that officers said was “typical” of drug dealers, for “looking nervous” around police or for

Source: The Times April 21, 2022 00:38 UTC