The strip-search of a Black girl by The Metropolitan Police has prompted outrage. The incident took place at her school, without an adult present and with the knowledge she was menstruating
Unfortunately, this horrific case of abuse is not an isolated incident and Black Londoners are alarmingly overrepresented. Recentshows in the past five years, the MET Police conducted 57,733 strip searches on Black people. So, 33.5% of strip searches were conducted on Black people when only 11.7% of Londoners are black. To contrast, 27% of strip searches were conducted on White British people who make up 44.9% of Londoners.
To take the most vulnerable in society, a child, and push them into a situation that further violates all human rights is unforgivable.into the case admitted that it was highly likely adultification bias had been a factor. It further concluded that the strip search should never have happened and racism 'was likely to have been an influencing factor'.
We cannot ignore the clear racial bias and profiling within this case. To the teachers and police, the fact that she was a black girl made her automatically guilty. Furthermore, the adultification of young black girls is a prevalent issue in society and instrumental in the handling of Child Q. Adults tend to perceive Black children as being older than they are because they see them as more 'streetwise.
From top to bottom there was an abhorrent lack of care for this child. The teachers who were supposed to safeguard her at school failed her and the MET Police, an organisation who claim to protect and serve our community, also failed her. The teachers also have questions to answer Why were the police called? Why were her parents not informed first? The fact that the school's first response was to call the police on an apparently non-threatening student should alarm us all.
‘I feel like I’m locked in a box, and no one can see or cares that I just want to go back to feeling safe again,' says Child Q
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