Brickbat: Spread 'Em

Police strip-searched a 15-year-old girl without her parent's permission or knowledge at her London, England, school, according to a report from local child protective services. Teachers said the girl smelled strongly of cannabis, but when they searched her, they found no drugs. So, they called the police. When cops arrived, they took the girl into a room and strip-searched her, including making her bend over, spread her buttocks with her hands and cough. The girl is black, and the report said racism may have been a factor in how she was treated.
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What's the point of gaining authority if you can't use it to fondle and ogle children.
You can fondle and ogle children:
The school was visited by four officers including two women who carried out the search of the girl
Just don't say gay.
That assumes the female officers weren't butch lesbo bitches with a chip.
When in doubt "racism" is the go to guy.
Yeah, pretty revealing that the government bureaucrats are so conditioned by woke anti-racism that they can't respond directly to the fundamental wrong (police strip-searching a teen girl) but latch onto a peripheral issue (police vs. black kid). I wonder if they have a typical government agency policy reminder poster in the break room, with graphics that remind them: police confronting white kid = green light; police confronting black kid = stop sign.
There is no doubt. Absolutely no reason to strip search a minor merely for smelling like pot. This isn't Alabama. Sheesh.
When cops arrived, they took the girl into a room and strip-searched her, including making her bend over, spread her buttocks with her hands and cough.
Judge Ketanji Jackson gave them probation.
I've heard it said that the degree of one's sense of humor is indicative of intelligence.
After reading so many of your comments, I must assume you're a genius.
What the race-peddlers don't understand is that cops are just as happy to shoot a white--or a dog, for that matter--as they are a black. Cops are equal-opportunity nazi thugs.