Lambeth MYP Darnell Hari, (formerly known as Hipplewith), 19, was stopped and searched by police on Friday (July 22) outside south London's Stockwell tube station on the same day as a Brazilian man was shot dead by officers.
Darnell was wearing Muslim dress and carrying a rucksack when he was stopped. "I felt discriminated against," he told Blears at the parliament's annual sitting last Saturday.
Blears said counter-terrorism powers were "not about stopping people because they're from a particular faith background".
She added that engagement with young people was one of the main "strands of work" planned by Tony Blair's Muslim task force to tackle Islamic fundamentalism.
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