As anti-racists warned, fines in England for breaking lockdown rules were given out disproportionately to BAME people, says anti-racist campaigner Micha Frazer-Carroll
, a number of policing bodies have said that geography may be responsible for overrepresentation of BAME communities – Suffolk Constabulary claimed that although BAME groups were four times as likely to be fined, these statistics were “broadly in line with the diversity of those communities where the offences occurred”.
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