You can never stay neutral over injustice, if you really want to fight racism in the USA & fight for justice, then why not start with where you live? Remember the name of #ShekuBayoh who died in police custody on 3rd May 2015 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland
What excuses were made & why are black men here never deemed worthy victims? Criminalised & stereotyped in the aftermath of their death-Sheku a knife wielding black man who attacked officers who had to defend themselves after being attacked first? LIES irr.org.uk/news/spinning-…
The dead cannot cry out for justice but it is the duty of the living to do so for them, for over 5 years the Bayoh’s fought for truth & justice only to be told not a single charge would be faced by any of the 9 detaining police officers google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dail…
1500 deaths in state custody since 1990- not a single successful prosecution google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.…
There have been over 3000 deaths in custody in the UK since 1969 but since then despite much evidence of unreasonable force, abuse of power, unlawful killing not one police officer has been tried & successfully prosecuted for homicide
Some of the most high profile Black victims of police brutality, police neglect, and gross misconduct by the police include: David Oluwale (1969), the first known Black person to have died in police custody in the UK; Cherry Groce (1985); Joy Gardner (1993);
Stephen Lawrence (1993); Christopher Alder (1998); Roger Sylvester (1999); Azelle Rodney (2005); Frank Ogboru (2006); Sean Rigg (2008); Jimmy Mubenga (2010); David “Smiley Culture” Emmanuel (2011); Mark Duggan (2011); Kingsley Burrell (2011); Anthony Grainger (2012);
Sheku Bayoh (2015). In the case of Stephen Lawrence, it took over 20 yrs of campaigning to bring his killers to justice after the police obstructed the course of justice, in Scotland 17 years to bring the racist killer of Surjit Singh Chhokar to justice
Even when officers are accused of killing they often continue to work on with full pay, automatically access public funding, use the media to prepare their defence to leak smears & to criminalise the dead. But what of the families of victims for whom there is no justice,no peace?
They are denied automatic access to legal aid, obstructed in their search for the truth, suffer the indignity & injustice of former police officers being involved & leading the investigation, face media and police ‘demonisation’ - these families are part of the same struggle
The Public Inquiry that will now take place into the death in custody of #ShekuBayoh must hold the police to account, examine racism & be truly robust if it is to mean anything sundaypost.com/fp/were-worn-d…
The last 5 years the Bayoh family in the midst of their grief have had to campaign for justice, whilst Sheku Bayoh was smeared in his death, but did the system really think Sheku’s life was so cheap they would simply walk away quietly? #GeorgeFloyd #ShekuBayoh #BlackLivesMatter
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