THREAD #BLM 1/ In 1995 we marched through Kennington to protest the death of Brian Douglas in police custody. Yesterday’s protest was sparked by the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. But it was about a lot more… I'll let the signs speak:
2/ Vauxhall 2020 #LDNBLM
3/ Vauxhall 2020 #LDNBLM
4/ Vauxhall 2020 #LDNBLM "Europe is the mother tree of racism, America is a branch"...
5/ Vauxhall 2020 #LDNBLM
6/ Vauxhall 2020 - this gives no clue as to the sheer scale and diversity of the crowd but it was at least 20k...
7/ Anyone in doubt as to the way young Brits are linking Johnson's appeasement of Trump's racism to their own experience of policing/education... just read the signs...
8/ Vauxhall 2020 - #LDNBLM - going past the MI6 building...
9/ I'll end again with the Brian Douglas campaign - shown in Ken Fero's documentary: IIRC was the local black community, the far left and some councillors and that was it today by comparison is a moment of global transformation. vimeo.com/34633260
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