1. Many missing the point. Black lawyers are exhausted when mistaken for a defendant because black defendants are overrepresented in the criminal justice system. It is a SYMPTOM of the over-criminalisation of black people.

2. It reminds us that people who work in the CJS are so used to seeing Black faces to the point that ANY Black face in the court room is a defendant. It shows the internal programming of those that work at court and how deep this issue runs.

3. The solution to this isn't just anti-racism training of course staff and the judicary. It's dealing with the wider issues of racism across the entire justice system that cause so many Black people to end up in docks of court in the first place

4. No, it's not because Black people are more likely to commit crimes. It's because our system is fundamentally flawed and targets Black people and other ethnic minorities; the working class; immigrants; the poor. It's even overly punitive against female defendants. I could go on

5. MANY have written extensively about these issues. Like I always say, start with the government's own reports and data from the 1981 Scarman Report through to the 2017 David Lammy Review and beyond. The issues are insidious and are not moving in the right direction

6. Just ignore my typos, it's 930 on a Friday night and I'm tweeting about racism. Tired.