The Racist Heart of Scotland Yard Exposed at Last The testimony of Paul Condon, former Metropolitan police commissioner, before the spycops inquiry has shed a damning light on the institutionally racist surveillance of Stephen Lawrence's family by undercover officers in the 1990s.
This is not merely a case of rogue officers gone awry; it reveals a systemic failure of the Metropolitan Police Service to control its own agents and tolerate their abuses.
Condon's admission that the covert monitoring of the Lawrences "meets very well the parameters of institutional racism" is a stark acknowledgment of the UK's largest police force's dark past.