A black 15 year old girl was strip searched at her school by the @metpoliceuk whilst she was on her period and this was sanctioned by her school. No public outrage. A cat gets kicked by a black man, there’s global outrage along with calls for him to be sacked and prosecuted
Zouma is now being prosecuted by the RSPCA for his actions. Swift actions in record time for feline justice. #ChildQ was strip searched TWO years ago at her school and there has been no justice. In fact the Met and the school have tried to keep it quiet as per usual.
To some white people, Black lives do not matter, Black children do not matter, Black trauma doesn’t matter and many white people have been socialised to believe that we are inferior and sub-human. This is why we don’t matter in their eyes and never will.
This is basic White privilege coupled with racial biases and thoughts of superiority which doesn’t allow for empathy. Black disadvantage and systemic oppression is real. What happened to #ChildQ is not an isolated incident. This is reflective of the Black British experience.
Child Q was forced to:
• Spread her legs, buttocks with her hands whilst coughing to reveal herself
• Take her sanitary towel off and show it to the officers
• Denied use of the toilet and forced to re-use her dirty sanitary towel
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

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Mar 19
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!
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Jun 25, 2021
Clip filmed by an eyewitness, listen to what he says at the end. The witness saw the whole encounter. “Section 1” “Stop & Search” & “Obstruction” were only mentioned as they forcefully restrained my cousin without clearly explaining why they were stopping or detaining him prior.
At no point was Levi cycling on the pavement or obstructing the officers. As officers of the law they MUST... STATE who they are, provide their ID number and what station they are from. CLEARLY explain why they are wanting to conduct a search and what they are looking for...
The search MUST be based on reasonable grounds, facts/evidence & intelligence. The officers must REFER to the relevant legislation to justify a search as explained here: *Section 1 of The Police & Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) *Section 23 of The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971...
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Jun 21, 2021
Levi was coming to the end of his 12 hour shift when he was aggressively approached by officers as he set off from Morley’s to deliver his orders, detained without a specific reason and intimidated repeatedly. This happened on Deptford High Street on Saturday 19th June 2021
He was taken to Lewisham Police Station without justification, kept overnight with no phone call to let his Mum or any other family know of his whereabouts and kept in a cell for over 16 hours, during which time he had to routinely beg for water...
Which was only granted after several hours of being in the cell. He was accused of assaulting a police officer (as you can see in the video) but released with no further action and no explanation as to why he was detained and arrested.
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Mar 13, 2021
I want to see a mugshot of @metpoliceuk officer Wayne Couzens who killed an innocent woman, abused his position as a public servant & failed to uphold his oath. I want to see pictures of this killer in his police uniform & not smiling in pictures like he’s committed a petty crime
This is where you see the blatant agenda & the classic humanisation of white criminals by the establishment & media. For every young black male that has broken the law, been murdered like my mentee Rhyhiem Barton or just a suspect, we get mugshots & pictures that portray evil
I don’t want to hear stories or excuses of mental breakdowns, injuries sustained in custody, loneliness or anything else for this so called officer @MailOnline @SkyNews @BBCNews @Telegraph @Independent where’s your outrage? Where’s the demonisation of this awful human being?
Read 11 tweets
Mar 11, 2021
The community must Police the Police, it’s us that must force them to be accountable.

“The police are the public & the public are the police”

It’s clear that Cressida Dick is part of the problem, a true lack of leadership, constant denial of institutional racism & an enabler
But it’s not just her, there are officers within the Police that have this very same view around institutional racism, casual misconduct without fear of consequence. They’ve been enabled & protected by their Commissioner to have these views whilst serving in the force.
I truly feel for the good officers of the @metpoliceuk because there are a lot of good people carrying out their duties for the correct & moral reasons. It’s embarrassing & disgusting that a serving officer is under investigation for murder. A full revamp of Police is needed.
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May 12, 2020
So this happened to me last week and I debated at length whether or not I share this widely. I spoke with my family extensively, watched the video over and over again and mulled it over for seven days...
What I realised is that I have an obligation as a postive, upstanding black man in my community, to share this and highlight the constant mistreatment, lack of respect and oppression we face at the hands of the @metpoliceuk on a daily basis
Last Monday I was delivering food to friends that have lost loved ones to COVID-19 as a gesture of love and support. On my way to my second drop off I saw two males one black & one white had been stopped by a number of police & being searched, I stopped my car instead of...
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