The Metropolitan Police have paid substantial damages to a Black teenager, who says he feared for his life when he was stopped and searched in the street.
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Jamar Powell, who was 16 at the time, said he’d been handcuffed and surrounded by armed officers, with a Taser poked into his neck.
Two officers now face disciplinary proceedings over the incident, which happened in September 2020.
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