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Ongoing police racism scandals show institutional racism is alive and kicking in Britain 30 years after the murder of Stephen Lawrence

The Stephen Lawrence inquiry and subsequent Macpherson Report led to changes in how police deal with the family of murder victims.

Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Stephen Watson said the label is unhelpful and misunderstood by members of the public.

And you may find the content of this report upsetting. that was literallyjust minutes after i'd give birth to him. i just look so young. becoming a mum was one of the happiest moments of sammy's life. but when her son was only 12, she had to tell him a painful truth — that the man he called dad had raped and abused her. and that's how he was born. he didn't want to be the person who he was. in his own skin. i blamed myself. i felt so stupid. sammy and her son struggled alone with the difficult emotions. it's only now, years later, that she's discovering they're not the only ones. you're ques...

The police were interested in. so despite the macpherson report in 1999, which shamed the police, which demanded change in the police, you don't think it would have happened without pressure from you? no, it wouldn't have happened. why not? i don't know, for me it's difficult to understand how the police work but i think when you look at around within the black community, how we are treated, how crimes are investigated, we are never seen as a group of people that should have justice, so everything that we have had we have had to fight for and continue to fight. in the last year we have had the...