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we actually do have this problem in the UK - for example, with the police targeting black teenagers/young adults for stop-and-searches in London. It seems a lot
by beaconstudios 9y ago
we actually do have this problem in the UK - for example, with the police targeting black teenagers/young adults for stop-and-searches in London. It seems a lot less pervasive/severe than in the US though.
- grkvlt 9y agoI remember watching the Metropolitan Police (bringing you Institutional Racism since the 1950s) checkpoints at the 'ring of steel' in the City of London during my smoke breaks - I can't recall any time they stopped anyone white, it was always blacks. The stated purpose of the checkpoints was to prevent IRA terrorism, and young black men have never really been known to be active Irish Republicans and Catholics...