When push comes to shove, regardless of who said what to whom, when this young man died, the investigation afterwards was a shambles. It’s been well-known for years that within the police force there has been racism. With galant efforts this kind of behaviour has tried to be stamped out. But no one can make anyone stop being racist. Stephen Lawrence was murdered. Because of incompetence his murder was never investigated properly. I don’t care who you are, if a member of your family was murdered for whatever reason, and you were treated in the way his family were treated, you would be crying out for proper justice. Underneath our skins, we are all the same, bone, blood, sinew, muscle, and a heart. Time to stop looking at the skin and realising what lies underneath.