“I remember the first time that I was stopped by police officers simply because of the colour of my skin.”

“I knew I hadn’t done anything wrong, but I couldn’t control my fear.”

“The same feeling has returned on a number of occasions in my work as a criminal barrister. I made international headlines one afternoon in the summer of 2020, when I tweeted about my experience of being mistaken for a defendant in a magistrates’ court multiple times in one day.”

““I’m a barrister,” I stuttered. “I’m here to represent a client.” The woman’s jaw dropped and her face flushed red. She looked embarrassed. “Oh, I see,” she muttered under her breath.”

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bron: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/17/im-not-the-defendant-the-trials-of-a-black-barrister

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