"The UK police system is institutionally racist"

Finally, the murderers of Stephen Lawrence were found guilty after a struggle that lasted longer than the time the victim was alive. Lawrence, born in September of 1974, was brutally killed – in a racially-motivated murder – while waiting for a bus in south-east London, in April of 1993. He was just eighteen years old.

He was killed by a gang of young, white, racist men who stabbed him in a wholly unprovoked attack. The last word he heard before dying was “nigger”.

The murder sparked a national outcry; even right-wing newspaper the Daily Mail published a picture of four of the alleged gang, claiming that they were Lawrence’s murderers.  Yasmin Begum has written an article explaining the reasons why "the UK police system is institutionally racist". You can read the article here.