Neville Lawrence: black people still second-class citizens in Britain

Exclusive: father of Stephen Lawrence says police’s promises to change have not been met

The father of Stephen Lawrence has said black people are still treated as second-class citizens in Britain, with police breaking promises to change they made two decades ago after being shamed by their failure to find his son’s racist killers.

Neville Lawrence used a Guardian interview to back peaceful anti-racism protests, saying he was “pleased” by the mass marches sweeping the country, triggered by the US police killing of George Floyd.

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