Matty - it is important not to forget that BAME people are more than four times as likely to be stopped and searched by police in England and Wales as white people.
For black people alone, it’s nearly 10 times.
They are more than three times as likely to be arrested as white people, and more than five times as likely to have force used against them. Custodial sentences are longer too.
It used to be much worse. For decades, Britain’s anti-discrimination laws didn’t apply to policing.
The underlying assumption was and probably still do to many because of "gang culture" that racial minorities posed a law-and-order danger.
The 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence, in a racist attack by a gang of five or six white youths, set off a series of events culminating in a perceived far greater public awareness of the problem and a degree of reform.
By the time a report was published in 1999, nobody was surprised by the conclusion of institutional racism within the police force.
But the question remains that in over 20 years bugger all seems to have changed so what will change in 2020 because of what happened in the USA?
And the demolishing of statues seems pathetically irrelevent in the great scheme of things other than possibly of more public division of understanding and hardening opposing public attitudes even more!