The shameful strip-search of Child Q
Today in Focus
The Guardian
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:10.8 | Today, the shameful police strip search of a London schoolgirl. |
| 0:23.0 | Just a quick warning before we start. |
| 0:25.0 | This episode does contain some scenes that some listeners will find distressing. |
| 0:38.7 | In East London this week, protesters have been rallying in support of a schoolgirl. |
| 0:48.1 | She's known to the public just as child Q. |
| 0:51.0 | A 15-year-old black pupil at a school in Hackney wrongfully accused of carrying cannabis. |
| 1:08.3 | When teachers searched her belongings, they found no drugs. |
| 1:12.4 | Yet police officers were called into the school. |
| 1:15.5 | They stripped search her. |
| 1:16.7 | She was a traumatised and her family say they no longer recognise her. |
| 1:26.4 | More than a year later, a new report has found that police racism influenced how child Q was treated. |
| 1:33.2 | It is really disproportionate for an officer to strip search anyone, let alone a child looking for cannabis. |
| 1:41.2 | Shantel Lunt used to be a police officer. She's now an anti-racism activist. |
| 1:46.1 | That search was not about finding drugs in any way, shape or form. |
| 1:50.3 | It was purely about humiliation. |
| 1:55.0 | Following the public outcry, even the Prime Minister was forced to weigh in. |
| 1:59.3 | Of course, the reports of this incident are deeply distressing and deeply concerning, |
| 2:06.3 | but the Metropolitan Police have rightly apologised and the IOPC is investigating. |
| 2:11.6 | And for that reason, it would not be right to comment further. |
| 2:18.1 | Yesterday, it was announced that two of the Met Police officers involved have been removed |
| 2:22.5 | from frontline duties. The public trust in policing is at a critical low. |
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