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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Sophie Huskisson

Met Police chief told to honour Stephen Lawrence and accept force is 'institutionally racist'

The author of a bombshell report into the Metropolitan Police has demanded bosses honour the memory of Stephen Lawrence by accepting the force is institutionally racist.

Baroness Louise Casey explicitly noted in her damning review that there was "institutional racism, sexism and homophobia in the Met".

But Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley rejected that Britain's biggest police force was “institutionally racist”, as he said the term has “different interpretations” and was "ambiguous".

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