'The Casey report is a devastating wake-up call for racist Met - now will they listen?'

Now will they listen to what Black and Brown people have been saying for decades?

Baroness Casey’s damning verdict is a devastating wake-up call for the Met Police.

Trouble is, it has been here before – with the 1981 Scarman Report and the 1999 Macpherson inquiry, which found the Met institutionally racist.

Ask the family of Dorothy “Cherry” Groce who was shot during a botched police raid in 1985 and waited 30 years for the Met to apologise “unreservedly for our failings”.

Ask the family of Cynthia Jarrett, who suffered a heart attack in another unwarranted police raid that year.

Cherry Groce was shot in Brixton by a police officer (Mirrorpix)

Stephen Lawrence was killed in April 1993 (PA)

Ask the family of Stephen Lawrence.

Google the lack of will to find missing Black people then and now.

Check the recent racist WhatsApp messages sent by police.

Speak to officers on the receiving end of abuse.

Two police officers in Tottenham, north London, in 1985 (Mirrorpix)

Ask the family of Valerie Forde, hacked to death by her partner in 2014 because police didn’t take his death threats seriously.

They’ve said all the right things before. The “one or two bad apples” defence won’t wash now.

We need swift action and accountability.

Anything else keeps heads in the sand.