More than one in three Britons believe police treat ethnic minorities more favourably than white people, new polling suggests.
The More in Common survey of 2,087 people found that 34 per cent of respondents believed ethnic minorities received preferential treatment – a proportion which has doubled in the last two years.
Meanwhile, 21 per cent of participants said white people were treated favourably.
The figures come amid a national outcry over the notion of two-tier policing, sparked by video footage of Henry Nowak’s final moments.
The clip showed the 18-year-old student pleading with officers that he ‘couldn’t breathe’ last December after being brutally knifed
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