Met officer who held Taser to black boy’s neck found guilty of gross misconduct

Jamar Powell, pictured with his mother, Rachel Hewitt, said he had been stopped and searched more than 30 times with nothing ever being found. Photograph: none

A Metropolitan police officer who put a Taser to the neck of an innocent black child after he had been forced to kneel in the street has been found guilty of gross misconduct but allowed to keep his job.

Jamar Powell told the Guardian he had feared he might die during the incident in September 2020, was left traumatised and would struggle to ever trust the police again, having been stopped and searched more than 30 times with nothing ever being found.