Police ……..questions…about racist behaviour

            These three Met police officers have taken stuff out of his pockets and are questioning him about the contents. The young guy looks pretty miserable - that is obvious. AND very scared - one up against three!
But the police are just carrying on , 
insensitive to the realities of what is actually going on.
If they were more up with the times (which they are not, here)=there would have been a more racially mixed group of officers. 
AND they would have been more aware of his age, and of how frightened he was feeling. 
He is just a kid.
And the big White bloke at the back, is actually holding him down…..This is Peckham, where half the population is Black! 
In London, young Black males are NINETEEN times more likely to be stopped and searched than White males! Yes - NINETEEN times! AND 70% of them are innocent!
Would I have had any rights, as a concerned citizen to have watched them more closely, and have intervened to offer the victim the support that he so badly needs here?
I don’t rightly know but I mean to find out….
   

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