The mother of a black boy who was surrounded by armed officers and arrested when his water pistol was mistaken for a gun has said “the police would not have treated my son in the way that they did if he had been a white 13-year-old boy”
She was speaking after an Independent Office for Police Conduct investigation found the officers’ actions were reasonable in the circumstances during the incident in Hackney, east London, on July 19 2023.
