Black women stepping back, 2yo tragically drowns, and other stories from Black, Asian and Arab communities you shouldn't have missed this week curated by Melissa Sigodo

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Policing

A former Met Police officer Trevor Lewton, 66, who sent a racist message with a photo of a bottle of aspirin and the caption, ‘'why do they put cotton wool in tablet bottles? To remind Black people they were cotton pickers before they were drug dealers', has lost an appeal to reduce his sentence. Full story.