Photo credit: “Met police helmet” by Matt Brown is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
So the latest report by Baroness Louise Casey into the Metropolitan Police (Met) has concluded that the organization is institutionally “racist, misogynistic, [and] homophobic” (p.14). Stop the presses! BREAKING NEWS! The police force that has been subject to complaints of racism for at least seventy years, whose relationship with the Black community is so bad that it sparked urban rebellions in 1981, 1985, 1995, and 2011—has a problem with racism! Who knew? It is almost as if the Scarman Enquiry (Report) of 1981 or the McPherson Report of 1999 never happened. But they were all in the years BGF (Before George Floyd) when the scales were firmly entrenched over the eyes of most of the population. In the year 3 AGF (After George Floyd), we should be thankful that the Whitestream media are awake to the nature of the problem. Sadly, there is as much chance of the change we need arriving as there was of the bus turning up when I dropped my daughter at the stop during the strike.
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