00:00It is because we are not racist, because we care so much about equality, that we have over-corrected and
00:07actually brought in rules that are actually discriminatory.
00:11How did this happen?
00:13When we saw high-profile incidents of injustice, like the murder of Stephen Lawrence, there was rightly public pressure to
00:21ensure an injustice like that never happened again.
00:26Stephen Lawrence's murder resulted in the influential McPherson report, a report that wanted to put right what went wrong with
00:33policing in the 1990s.
00:35However, in attempting to do so, it also enshrined a principle which I believe is wrong, that a racist incident
00:44is racist if it is perceived as racist by the victim or any other person.
00:52This may have made sense in a different context long ago, but today, when we look at the response to
00:59Henry Novak's murder and the police's acceptance that the murderer was correct when he accused Henry of racism, it is
01:07clear that mere accusations are being accepted as facts.
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