“It is one of the worst things that could happen,” said Hackney resident Althea who was one of hundreds who took to the streets to protest about the police strip-search of a Black 15-year-old girl at her school. Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP Diane Abbott said Stoke Newington police station had a reputation “for violence and brutality”, including the death of Colin Roach of a gunshot wound in the entrance of the police station in 1983. She questioned why Child Q’s unnamed school would call the police if they thought they smelt cannabis on a child.