The independent review said the circumstances of what happened had “involved a complex intersection of disability, live broadcast risk and the use of language with a profound and painful historical context”.
The incident also highlighted a broader challenge, the review said – “the need to balance accessibility for participants with the safety and dignity of others in the room and watching at home”.
However, the review said it would be “wrong to describe the event as evidence of institutional racism, as this misses an important point”.
“Institutional racism means that racial bias is built into systems, policies, and culture. In such systems, discriminatory outcomes appear regardless of individual intent.
“The available evidence does not support that conclusion here. Instead, the evidence suggests something different. Bafta’s planning and risk governance systems have not kept pace with its diversity goals.”
Bafta ceremony host Alan Cumming previously apologised after the “trauma-triggering” show.
After the ceremony, Lindo told Vanity Fair that he and Jordan, who were handing out an award “did what we had to do” as they carried on presenting after the shout, but also said he wished “someone from Bafta spoke to us afterward”.
In his own interview with Variety, Davidson said: “I want to be really clear that the intent behind them [the tics] is zero. What you’re hearing is a symptom – not my character, not my thought, not my belief.”
“Tourette’s can feel spiteful and searches out the most upsetting tic for me personally and for those around me,” he explained. “What you hear me shouting is literally the last thing in the world I believe; it is the opposite of what I believe.
“The most offensive word that I ticked at the ceremony, for example, is a word I would never use and would completely condemn if I did not have Tourette’s.”