Half of children who are tasered come from BAME groups – report

Rights campaigners reveal sharp rise in use of spit hoods on under-18s by policeHalf of the children tasered by police, and a third of those restrained using spit hoods, in England are black or from other minority ethnic groups, according to figures obtained by children’s rights campaigners.The data, compiled from freedom of information requests, showed that in the first nine months of last year police across England used Tasers 839 times on people aged under 18, compared with 879 uses on children in the whole of 2017. Continue reading…
Via: Half of children who are tasered come from BAME groups – report