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Black MP tells how police 'frisked and groped' him as shock report shows stop and search 'racism'

The "fear and embarrassment" of being stopped has stayed with David Lammy ever since. [Photo, Courtesy]

The practice of stop and search is ineffectual and racially unjust, MP David Lammy has said, as he recounted his own childhood experiences of being searched by police.

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