Line of Duty’s DC Chloe Bishop was close to tears as she told of the death in custody of black architect Lawrence Christopher.
His tragic story was based on the murder of Stephen Lawrence in a racially motivated attack this week in 1993, and the lesser-known but no less shocking killing of Christopher Alder in a Hull Police station in 1998.
In last week’s episode of the hit BBC1 police drama, the visibly upset AC-12 detective, played by Shalom Brune-Franklin, described how officers were “laughing and making monkey noises while Christopher lay dying”.
This is just what happened to former Falklands War paratrooper Christopher in his final moments, as he choked to death in police custody in one of the worst known examples of systemic racism in
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