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Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley speaks to the media outside New Scotland Yard, central London
BRITAIN’S biggest police force is “rotten to the core” and has “nowhere to hide,” victims’ relatives warned today following a damning review which uncovered institutional racism, misogyny, and homophobia.
Doreen Lawrence said findings that London’s Metropolitan Police is institutionally racist came as “no surprise” nearly 25 years after a separate inquiry came to the same conclusion following the force’s handling of her son Stephen’s racist murder in 1993.
The End Violence Against Women Coalition’s Andrea Simon said today’s 300-page report from Baroness Louise Casey was “damning” over the Met’s failings towards women, black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people and LGBT Londoners.
BEN CHACKO reports on the struggles against sexism, racism and the brutish British state that featured at Matchwomen’s Festival this year
To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped