The Metropolitan Police has failed to change in the 30 years since the murder of her teenage son, Baroness Doreen Lawrence has told BBC News.
Weeks after a landmark report found evidence of continuing systemic racism, Baroness Lawrence said officers can be “as brutal as they want” without being held to account.
She told the BBC the findings of the Casey Review did not surprise her.
Black people are never seen as “people that should have justice”, she added.
It is now 30 years since the murder of Stephen, and Baroness Lawrence sat down with me ahead of a memorial service for her son. She told me she had spoken to the Met’s Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley and told him promises of change must be judged against the experience of the public.
Eighteen-year-old Stephen was killed in 1993 in an unprovoked racist attack by a gang at a bus stop in Eltham in south-east London. Two of his five suspected killers were jailed for murder nearly 20 years later.
The 1999 Macpherson Report into the…
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