Young people and youth workers will picket a Hackney police station over the ‘state-sanctioned sexual assault’ of Child Q. These are their storiesTrigger warning: Contains references to police violence, violence against women and girls, racism and sexual assault
“I got strip searched three times in one night,” says Ellis*. “The first time was enough, the second time was ‘whoa what are you lot doing?’ and the third time I gave up. What can I do?
“Imagine being 14, 15, 16. You’re in a room with grown men, four strangers, grown men telling you ‘take off your clothes, bend over and squat.’
“They’re watching you – and the funny thing is they are bantering, they’re laughing about.”
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