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As once again we see that the justice system is incapable of keeping black people safe from racial violence we’d do well to remember that Shukri’s brutal death illustrates not just racist bullying, but built-in failures at every turn in society.
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As once again we see that the justice system is incapable of keeping black people safe from racial violence we’d do well to remember that Shukri’s brutal death illustrates not just racist bullying, but built-in failures at every turn in society.
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EDUCATION
The school, notoriously unsafe, is guilty of negligence and not acting on Shukri’s continued, racist bullying. Shukri’s family at times had to personally intervene in physical attacks, still the racist young person did not receive an intervention from the school.
The school, notoriously unsafe, is guilty of negligence and not acting on Shukri’s continued, racist bullying. Shukri’s family at times had to personally intervene in physical attacks, still the racist young person did not receive an intervention from the school.
POLICE
The local police continually disrespected + mistreated the family in the most racist, callous & condescending fashion, from going to press before informing them of the death, to prematurely ruling an accident..
The local police continually disrespected + mistreated the family in the most racist, callous & condescending fashion, from going to press before informing them of the death, to prematurely ruling an accident..
to allowing two key suspects home to corroborate with family, before arresting them - two testimonies that have defined the inquest - to not passing on key court dates to the family, to harassing family members in the station by aggressively shouting at them and much more.
HOUSING
Everything perhaps starts with housing. The government purposefully mal-integrates asylum seekers, driving destitution and abuse. the poorest two thirds of the UK house 57% of asylum seekers, the richest third only 10% (tory constituencies).
Everything perhaps starts with housing. The government purposefully mal-integrates asylum seekers, driving destitution and abuse. the poorest two thirds of the UK house 57% of asylum seekers, the richest third only 10% (tory constituencies).
Families like Shukri’s are ‘dispersed’ and placed in unsafe homes, in a privatised housing system run by companies (themselves tied to many deaths of asylum seekers), in majority poor + white communities where racial tensions are rife and local services are stretched or cut.
MEDIA
The papers and politicians have obfuscated and largely protected the police and ‘children’ whom they often contrast to the ‘12 year old refugee’, focusing on her as a Somali, insinuating Shukri was at fault, and repeatedly headlining the defendants side of the story.
The papers and politicians have obfuscated and largely protected the police and ‘children’ whom they often contrast to the ‘12 year old refugee’, focusing on her as a Somali, insinuating Shukri was at fault, and repeatedly headlining the defendants side of the story.
As @Chunkz said, “one thing about Shukri, is the fact that she’s a refugee, a Somali, and a Muslim.. all three of them in one, that couldn’t be a good combination for the government”.
they want this to go away, they don’t wanna hear us call for justice for Shukri.
they want this to go away, they don’t wanna hear us call for justice for Shukri.
Shukri’s death was not ‘accidental’. It was the result of built-in failure at every level, schooling, housing, local services, government, policing, courts, media. These failures are structural, and they are ideological.
Shukri’s death is about black, migrant lives having never mattered since the day we arrived here and ever since, so this is of course about making #BlackLivesMatter 
Our thoughts today are with Shukri’s families and all those who campaign for justice, and to ensure such an atrocity never happens again.
#JusticeForShukriAbdi
#JusticeForShukriAbdi
