Thread by @sholmeslewis

There was more global outrage about a cat being kicked & abused by a Black man, than a 15 year old Black girl being strip searched by the @metpoliceuk with the support of her school whilst she was menstruating. To many white people in this country, Black lives will never matter.

Black children and Black trauma do not matter, Black dehumanisation doesn’t matter, Black people aren’t seen as human because many white people have been socialised to see us as inferior. Hence why our pain, tears, outrage, and routine injustices don’t mean a thing to the world.

We had @adidasfootball @Vitality_UK publicly distancing themselves from Zouma and West Ham by ending their sponsorship because of his actions and now he’s being prosecuted by the @RSPCA_official in record time. The Met have tried to keep this quiet as usual!

This awful strip search of Child Q, took place without an appropriate adult present has taken two years to come to light. TWO YEARS without any action from the Met. Your officers AND the teachers sanctioned an abusive, unwarranted strip search where Child Q was forced to:

• Take her sanitary pad off to show to the female officers
• Bend over, spread her legs/buttocks then use her hands to reveal herself whilst coughing
• Denied use of the toilet and forced to re-use her dirty sanitary towel
• Endure being racially profiled due to being Black

This is absolutely horrific, degrading and fully unwarranted. All of the associated adults need to sacked, face jail time and be publicly shamed. They should not be protected for what they did. This is child abuse plain and simple. We must make sure that they face consequences

We can’t let them get away with this. None of these so-called adults should work with children or people again. We need to make and example of them all for the inhumane treatment of a young girl. I am disgusted. We should all be!

We must all hold the @metpoliceuk to account for everything that they do. We must hold these educational institutions to account for how they treat, discriminate and indoctrinate our Black children. Justice must be driven by us all, and until it’s realised we don’t stop! #ChildQ