UK Deputy PM Lammy: Equality Before Law Doesn't Require Identical Treatment of All Ethnic Groups
By
Kurt Zindulka
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Summary
British Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy has argued that equality before the law does not mean treating all ethnic groups identically by police, following the death of 18-year-old Henry Nowak who died in police handcuffs after officers refused to believe he had been stabbed by a Sikh man. Lammy cited disproportionate arrest rates of certain ethnic minority groups, including Roma travellers, as justification for differential treatment under the law.
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The starting point should be equality before the law, but it is not always appropriate to be treated 'the same'
We must acknowledge the disproportionate arrest rates of certain ethnic minority groups, such as Roma travellers
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