Black Enterprise, a magazine publication, reports that the Independent Office for Police Conduct, based in the UK, has called for measures to stop the “adultification” of Black children in England and Wales. The article includes the following excerpt from a 2023 CPE blog post, “The Adultification of Black Children:”
“When Black children are held to adult standards, the harm goes far beyond their own lives and that of their families, the trauma affecting whole communities, not least because those responsible are so infrequently held accountable,” the center wrote. “Keith Belcher and his family had to wait nearly 30 years for the Connecticut courts to acknowledge its grotesque sentencing of a 14-year-old boy; the family of 14-year-old Emmett Till, tortured and murdered by a group of white men in 1955, is still waiting for someone to answer for his lynching.”
Read the article at Black Enterprise’s website.