Is is time the Lawences let matters rest?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.guardian.c...10-race?newsfeed=true

Her son's killers are now behind bars, isn't it now time for Mrs Lawrence to now let the matter rest?

She criticises Prime Minister Cameron for 'not doing enough to tackle racial prejudice', but fails to say what he should do.

It could also be said that the PM is not doing enough to tackle the Black on Black crime that is prevalent in our capital.

She also warned that spending cuts will hit working-class and black Britons the hardest. Why the need to add 'black Britons' are they any different from the ordinary working classes?

In the interview she complained about her son being stopped by the police, and was asked if it is possible police were targeting her son because of any suggestion of criminality, to which she said: "He's a teacher for goodness sake."

Well one has to ask how the police would know that, and also, cannot teachers also be criminals.

[ummmm]

Until you've had a child that has been murdered just because of the colour of their skin, I don't think any of us are qualified to answer.

[pdust]

well said ummmm

[Zhukov]

A little condescending there AOG,imo!

Not all of Stephen Lawrence"s killers are "behind bars"!

[Zhukov]

You could have shown the good grace to spell his name correctly,in your OP!

[Zhukov]

hear,hear,redhelen!

[seadogg]

They certainly mounted a very effective campaign to keep the case before the public and police. In a way, this kind of activity develops its own momentum once it gets rolling. Regarding teachers, it is a fact that they are required to have a CRB check in order to be allowed to do this type of work so they are unlikely to be convicted criminals.

[dannyk13]

In a word yes.

[cathfromsaron]

'some' of the killers are behind bars! 'some' are not!

and the police are allegedly responsibly for that situation and should be investigated!

[Philtaz]

What others have said, so to answer the question in the OP, no.

[anotheoldgit]

seadog

/// so they are unlikely to be convicted criminals. ///

Who said anything about being "convicted" criminals?

And no matter what CRB or any other check they may have to have, there are many cases of teachers who commit criminal acts.

[cathfromsaron]

teacher can indulge in criminal behaviour until they are caught ... but yes, after they are caught the CRB would/should find them out!

[humbersloop]

Entirely agree with Ummmm and Redhelen.

And in the eighteen years the police failed to catch just some of her son's killers, they managed to stop her other son twenty times.

[sandyRoe]

AOG, imagine a world where an innocent Jamie Acourt had been stabbed to death by a gang of 'black savages' who had apparently got away with their crime. Would his parents (acourt's) be wrong to continue to pursue justice?

[joko]

the point she is making is that he was only stopped in the first place because he was black... had he been white he perhaps would not have been stopped.

it is generally believed that police stop black youths more often than any other...just 'because'...

[anotheoldgit]

A lot of nonsense has been said regarding these stop and search actions.

Do you really believe that the police would stand the risk of being accused of racism, just so they could just unnecessarily stop and search blacks?

No, they most likely take place in predominately black areas, were a large proportion of black criminal gang members hang out.

Yes they would love to see the stop and search operations cease, so they could carry on with their illegal operations unheeded.

[THECORBYLOON]

Anotheoldgit how would you feel if you were twenty-seven times more likely to be stopped and searched than a black person?