Letters: The Lawrence verdict and racism in Britain | UK news | The Guardian

Letters: The Lawrence verdict and racism in Britain UK news The Guardian: Two key social issues arise from the trial of two of Stephen Lawrence's murderers (After 18 years, justice, 4 January). The first is that the then government, under both Thatcher and Major, would not countenance any criticism of the police, especially by black people adversely affected by policing, nor did it acknowledge that institutions were often providing different and less equal standards against which black people were judged and treated. Those of us who did raise these charges in the 1970s, 80s and 90s were accused of having a chip on our shoulder, being "politically correct" and dismissed as "loony".?