Cut through the noise by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Greater Manchester Police is 'institutionally racist' according to the chair of a panel scrutinising its record, which found it was nearly six times more likely to Taser a black person than a white person.
Elizabeth Cameron has suggested that the disproportionate use of police powers ‘goes beyond unconscious bias and into the realms of racism’, while also expressing concerns about the lack of ethnic minority representation within the force’s ranks.
Stephen Watson, the chief constable of GMP, has denied that the force was institutionally racist, but admitted that it was likely that it could employ ‘somebody who behaves in a racist way’. READ MORE:Black
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