But then the teacher asked a police officer based at the school to speak to him too. When the officer spoke to Alex, they are alleged to have told him he wouldn’t be taken down to the police station on this occasion. I felt scared, and I’ve never felt like that before,” Alex said, describing the moment he was spoken to by the officer. When she found out her son had been spoken to by a police officer, she was “absolutely furious”. It added that the teacher who had spoken to Alex had “presumed” his guilt as a consequence.

Source: The Guardian March 25, 2021 16:01 UTC