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Originally Posted by bellaetoile

you're a minor, and if they suspected you had commited some sort of crime, they couldn't arrest you, because there are clear guidelines regarding parent/guardian presence.

They certainly can arrest someone under the age of 16. The requirement is that once detained the store must advise a parent or guardian and the store is not permitted to present the detainee with a Civil Demand or Statement Form without a parent guardian present. You can read this in the Memorandum Statement I previously mentioned - Paragraphs 6.4 (b)(i)-(ii)

A quick search of the ACLU website shows that it does protect those under 18 years old from discrimination - see this case, another interesting one and another and this. It's interesting that in three of these cases, young people were discriminated against because of the way they dressed. All these cases are against schools but as that's the environment in which young people are most likely to face discrimination, that's hardly surprising. The principles will apply to discrimination in other situations.