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Today we're going to be talking about the case of Stephen Lawrence. So quickly before I get into this video I just want to give my usual disclaimer that I mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone that I talk about in this video.

This is all just information that I have found on the internet and I'm compiling into one video.

So Stephen Lawrence was an 18 year old boy born on September 13th, 1974 in South East London.

He was the first child of Jamaican born parents, Neville and Doreen Lawrence.

Stephen eventually became the oldest of three siblings when two years after Stephen was born,

they had his younger brother Stuart, and then when Stephen was eight years old they had his younger sister Georgina.

Stephen was very determined and headstrong and stubborn, but not always in a negative way.

He just kind of knew what he wanted and he was going to go out and get it.

He was very creative, he was a very talented artist, he could draw really well.

But above all else, Stephen was very athletic and he excelled in running.

He took part in marathons and so many kind of athletics competitions, all of which he did really well in.

He studied technology, physics, English language and

English literature at college and hoped to one day become an architect. On Thursday, April 22nd,

1993, 18 year old Stephen Lawrence had his usual day at school when after school he decided

to go into Lewisham with his friend Dwayne Brooks and they were just going to kind of

look around the shops. After about an hour in town the boys got the bus back to Stephen's

uncle's house where they played video games for a while. Before long it was coming up on 10 o'clock

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