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Watershed Moment: Race Relations and Macpherson Report

watershed moment: It was 24 years ago that 18-year-old Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in a racist attack as he stood with a friend at a bus stop in South East London, according to Globe and Mail. Mr. The attack on the teenager triggered vivid memories of another young man standing at a bus stop horrifically, his life was snatched away by racists. Lawrence's brutal, racist murder and the release of the subsequent Macpherson Report was a watershed moment for the Metropolitan Police and race relations in Britain. Ahmed has provided a moment of short pause for sections of the British tabloid press, which had spent the past year in the run-up to the Brexit vote highlighting the alleged danger and threats to Britain and the so-called British way of life by immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees. The suspected hateful violence unleashed against Mr. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.