Exclusive: Letter to police force accuses it of endemic racism, as protests build over strip-search
A group of prominent Black men and women have said they long “for a day when Black people do not feel unsafe” in the presence of police, as plans for protests gather pace in the wake of the Child Q scandal, in which a Black child was subjected to a strip-search at school that involved exposure of intimate body parts.
A letter signed by more than a dozen public figures, including football pundit Ian Wright and the chief business officer of Condé Nast, Vanessa Kingori, accuses the Metropolitan police of endemic racism and calls for “immediate and decisive action” to right the wrong, including holding to account the officers who were involved.
