Academic recounts police strip-search as CCTV exposes 'dehumanising' language – video
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Dr Konstancja Duff was given an apology and compensation by the Metropolitan police after she obtained CCTV footage of officers making sexist and derogatory comments about her.Here she recounts what was happening as officers at an east London police station cracked jokes about her body after they restrained her and cut her clothes off. The academic was arrested after she tried to give a 15-year-old boy being stopped and searched by police a card with details of solicitors. She was taken to Stoke Newington police station, where she was strip-searched. What's that smell? Oh, it's her knickers,' officers quipped to each other