Badenoch claims police who arrested Henry Nowak influenced by guidance saying ‘hate crimes should be treated as priority’ – UK politics live
Conservative leader also says public service workers do not need equality law to get them to treat people fairly Badenoch said, after the murder of Stephen Lawrence, it was right that people wanted to ensure this did not happen again. It led to the Macpherson report, she said. [It] wanted to put right what went wrong with policing in the 1990s. However, in attempting to do so, it also enshrined a principle which I believe is wrong that a racist incident is racist if it is perceived as racist by
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05.42 EDTBadenoch claims police who arrested Henry Nowak influenced by guidance saying hate crimes should be treated as priorityKemi Badenoch starts by talking about the video filmed by the police as they arrested Henry Nowak.She says it was hard to watch because she “found myself willing the police to stop, to at least consider Henry’s story and check if he had been stabbed”.She says she met Nowak’s family last week. They do not want this case to be used to divide people.She goes on: double quotation markThey want the police to become an institution that we can trust again. And if we want to honour that wish to honour Henry’s memory, we need to ask the right question.
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