A teenager has been arrested after horrific ‘racial abuse’ was caught on camera of a black schoolboy being forced to kiss the shoe of a white male.
The incident which is believed to have happened in Carlisle, Cumbria on Friday is being treated as a suspected hate crime.
In the two clips shared on to X, a white boy can be seen harrassing the black pupil dressed in his uniform, ordering him to ‘get on your knees and kiss my shoe’ or ‘you are getting whacked’.
The phrase ‘kiss my shoe’ is repeated multiple times, as the schoolboy tries to resist and people from behind the camera snigger and laugh.
Finally the schoolboy bends down and is forced to kiss the muddy shoe.
In another clip, that appears to have been filmed only moments later, it shows the same boy following the student up the street, and punching him twice before an onlooker intervenes.
Cumbria Constabulary confirmed on Saturday that a teenage boy had been arrested in relation to a report of a ‘hate incident’.
The force said it was aware of the video and ‘concerns in the community’ and asked people not to share it further.
They said: ‘We can confirm officers have arrested a teenage boy in relation to a report of a hate incident involving a boy being assaulted in Carlisle.
‘Officers are aware of images relating to this incident being circulated online and concerns in the community over the incident.
‘As an arrest has been made we would urge people not to share the video further so as not to impede any legal proceedings or to identify any of the children involved. Any witnesses or anyone with information can contact police on 101.’
To date the video has been viewed almost 200k times.
Social media user Olumo of Derby, captioned the video: ‘Racism in the UK is getting worse everyday. A black child was racially abused and beaten up today at St John Henry Newman Catholic School in Carlisle. Are black people not safe in Carlisle?’
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Lettice Bromovsky
