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People continue to die preventable deaths in UK police custody. Bereaved families continue to face delay, defensiveness, denial in their struggles for truth and accountability.
@SarahUncles of @INQUEST_org on an alarming lack of progress:
THREAD 1/ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/shine-a-light/slow-pace-urgent-change-prevent-deaths-police-custody/
@SarahUncles of @INQUEST_org on an alarming lack of progress:
THREAD 1/ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/shine-a-light/slow-pace-urgent-change-prevent-deaths-police-custody/
3 yrs ago #Angiolini review of police custody deaths raised hopes of change.
What happened?
• 54 more deaths in police custody inEngland&Wales,
• Black people still more than twice as likely to die
• Pple in mental health crisis still at risk
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https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/shine-a-light/slow-pace-urgent-change-prevent-deaths-police-custody/
What happened?
• 54 more deaths in police custody inEngland&Wales,
• Black people still more than twice as likely to die
• Pple in mental health crisis still at risk
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https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/shine-a-light/slow-pace-urgent-change-prevent-deaths-police-custody/
The deaths of Sean Rigg in 2008 & Olaseni Lewis in 2010, after restraint by police during a mental health crisis, sparked campaigns & #Angiolini review
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https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/shine-a-light/slow-pace-urgent-change-prevent-deaths-police-custody/
#Angiolini recommendations in 2017 sought to prevent preventable deaths & addressed:
• institutional racism & its impacts
• lethal risks of restraint
• heightened danger when s/o is in mental health crisis
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• institutional racism & its impacts
• lethal risks of restraint
• heightened danger when s/o is in mental health crisis
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Five months after #Angiolini, Kevin Clarke, a 35 year old Black man in a mental health crisis, died after prolonged and heavy restraint by multiple police officers 5/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/shine-a-light/slow-pace-urgent-change-prevent-deaths-police-custody/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/shine-a-light/slow-pace-urgent-change-prevent-deaths-police-custody/
At Oct 2020 inquest into Kevin’s death, jury concluded that police decision to restrain him was “not based on a balanced assessment of the risks to Kevin, compared to the risks to the public & police”
6/ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/shine-a-light/slow-pace-urgent-change-prevent-deaths-police-custody/
6/ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/shine-a-light/slow-pace-urgent-change-prevent-deaths-police-custody/
Oct 2020, for the 22nd year running, United Friends and Families Campaign @UFFCampaign held a memorial event for loved ones, families united in loss, anger & labour for justice & accountability
this year, online
7/ https://www.inquest.org.uk/uffc22memorial
this year, online
7/ https://www.inquest.org.uk/uffc22memorial
Instead of marching, in 2020 bereaved family members spoke powerfully of their loss and their experience of injustice via film by #MigrantMedia
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In the days after #GeorgeFloyd’s murder, UK establishment responded as if such things don’t happen here.
UK police leaders called for justice and accountability:
9/ https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/1268129373267386368
UK police leaders called for justice and accountability:
9/ https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/1268129373267386368
“Our police aren't armed, they don’t have guns” BBC’s Emily Maitlis told @GeorgeThePoet , after #GeorgeFloyd murder, as if police brutality is not a UK thing
Except that. . .
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Except that. . .
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Britain has its George Floyds too:
Christopher Alder, Kingsley Burrell, Darren Neville, Sheku Bayoh, Marc Cole, Cherry Groce, Sarah Reed, Jack Susianta, Adrian McDonald, Seni Lewis, Sean Rigg, Rashan Charles . . .
as @Rebecca_Omonira reports 11/ https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2020/06/UK-black-lives-matter-protests-deaths-custody-police-rashman-george-floyd
Christopher Alder, Kingsley Burrell, Darren Neville, Sheku Bayoh, Marc Cole, Cherry Groce, Sarah Reed, Jack Susianta, Adrian McDonald, Seni Lewis, Sean Rigg, Rashan Charles . . .
as @Rebecca_Omonira reports 11/ https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2020/06/UK-black-lives-matter-protests-deaths-custody-police-rashman-george-floyd
At @SHINEreports over years we’ve investigated &reported on state related deaths, including lethal restraint of:
• Gareth Myatt, age 15 (at a G4S child prison)
• Jimmy Mubenga, age 46 (restraint by 3 G4S guards)
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• Rashan Charles /12
• Gareth Myatt, age 15 (at a G4S child prison)
• Jimmy Mubenga, age 46 (restraint by 3 G4S guards)
And
• Rashan Charles /12
Next week we’ll publish fresh disclosures about the “accidental death” of #RashanCharles.
We acknowledge always the labour of bereaved families of @UFFcampaign and @INQUEST_org in working for change, accountability, justice, and a kinder world.
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We acknowledge always the labour of bereaved families of @UFFcampaign and @INQUEST_org in working for change, accountability, justice, and a kinder world.
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