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Labour hit out yesterday at the "shameful" effect the police's stop-and-search powers have on ethnic minority communities.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has called for an urgent reform of the way the powers are used by police, including banning officers from targeting specific people for stop and searches.
Ms Cooper also called for current guidance on avoiding race discrimination to be replaced with legislation.
Political figures are fuelling unrest and encouraging racialised violence before justice takes its course, warns DIANE ABBOTT MP – our responsibility now must be to speak out and oppose the politics of hatred
Thousands expected to attend next protest against Palestine Action ban, organisers say
Home Secretary Cooper confirms plans to ban the group and claims its peaceful activists ‘meet the legal threshold under the Terrorism Act 2000’