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Sami Quadri

Doreen Lawrence accuses police of 'arrogance' as she criticises force for failing to promote black officers

Doreen Lawrence has accused Scotland Yard of arrogance and resisting change as she condemned the force for failing to promote black officers.

The social justice campaigner suggested that a lack of progress has been made since the damning Macpherson report was published 25 years ago, which criticised the police investigation into her son Stephen Lawrence’s murder as institutionally racist and flawed.

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