What Is Your Take On This?

[phleb]

This is so bad.

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/racism-cited-factor-police-strip-190654948.html

[tiggerblue10]

Disgusting. All concerned should be sacked and charged with assault of a minor.

[david small]

Excessive, response and very humiliating for the girl. Racist, I don’t think so. Another example of it’s cause I’m black, innit?

[emmie]

disgusting and uncalled for, the officers should be sacked

[sp1814]

david small

Did you read the report, especially the part about adultification?

The charge of racism is coming from the authors of the report who investigated the matter.

[William51]

That was a bad mistake by the police. It was not racist but humiliatingly bad practice where no guidelines were followed. Officers need to be prosecuted.

[david small]

adultification, sp1814. A debatable excuse. It’s not my fault l look older….it’s cause I’m black innit…..

[sp1814]

David small

Or…it could actually be an issue?

[Ellipsis]

> It’s not my fault l look older….it’s cause I’m black innit…..

Who's this supposed to be ... the girl who was strip-searched? What great taste you have.

Anybody claiming to know it wasn't racist is an idiot. You weren't there, you don't know anything about the weeks leading up to this incident, you don't know anything at all except what's in the report of the investigation, which did find racism. And you think you can figure it all out from reading that report and draw the opposite conclusion based on your vast experience of what ... ???

[david small]

Ellipsis… you can find racism anywhere and everywhere if you look for it. Pigmentation of the skin doesn’t define a person. The response of others to that pigment defines them.

[Ellipsis]

Thanks, but I'll be taking no lessons from you ...

A 15-year-old black girl is sitting in an exam. She has no history of drugs. Her white teachers call the police based on a suspicion. They take her out of the exam. They do not inform her parents. The white police strip-search her while her white teachers wait outside the door keeping guard. She gets down to her knickers with nothing being found. The police tell her to take her knickers off. She explains she is on her period. The police demand it anyway. The police then ask her to remove her sanitary towel. They ask her to place her hands on her buttocks and spread them while they gaze up her backside, and her friends continue with their exam. Still no reference to the parents. No evidence of drugs is found. It's the Met police, who are known to have a racism problem.

Would you blame the victim for thinking that racism was involved?