Thread by @SHINEreports

2 Metropolitan Police officers were tasked to guard the bodies of sisters, Bibaa Henry,46, and Nicole Smallman,27, who were stabbed to death in a Wembley park.
The police officers allegedly took "inappropriate pictures" aka selfies with the dead women and shared them around. 1/

When sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were reported missing police took no action. Their mother, Mina Smallman said:
“They looked at my daughter’s address and thought they knew who she was. A Black woman who lives on a council estate.”
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“A 46 yr old professional woman and 27 year old professional. Why would you not take it seriously?” said Mina Smallman.

36 hours after the sisters went missing, friends and family (not police) found the murder weapon. [17.42] 3/
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This week mother Mina Smallman heard from #IOPC : "I don't know how to tell you this. . police officers were taking selfies and posing for pictures with your dead daughters" [17.42] 4/

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"The image I have& keep on having, is, you know in the Deep South when they used to lynch people, and you would see smiling faces around a hanging dead body? . .Game hunters. .holding elephant tusks, or standing with their foot on the neck of an elephant or a tiger?"
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"Those police officers dehumanised our children. They were nothing to them. And what's worse they sent them on [the selfies] to members of the public."

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Mother Mina Smallman: "This has taken our grief to another place, another place. This, if ever we needed to understand that the institutional racism within the police force *and* other institutions, the Church of England, education. . .

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Mina Smallman: "If ever we needed an example of how toxic it has become. Those police officers felt •so safe•, •so untouchable• that they they felt they could take photographs of dead Black girls and send them on."

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Mina Smallman: “Those police officers dehumanised our children. And it speaks volumes of the ethos that runs through the Metropolitan Police"
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Mina Smallman: "I want #BlackLivesMatter not to become a slogan every time something appalling happens, & then we all retreat. I want it to make a change and a difference. Like the #MeToo. Like the #TimesUp I want positive action to come out of this."
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Interviewer: "But it's nearly 30 years since the Stephen Lawrence inquiry. What has changed?"

Mina Smallman: "Nothing. They've just got better at covering it up. It is so entrenched in the whole ethos that they've normalised it."
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Mina Smallman: "The job of the police is to keep the bad guys out. Not to behave like the bad guys. Black people don't feel they can call the police and trust them to deal with their issues.. . .

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"Because all kinds of assumptions are being made about who they are, because of where they live, or because of their circumstances. It's not good enough. It really isn't good enough"

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Mina Smallman on #bbcnews Fri 26 June.
Her daughters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were stabbed to death in a Wembley park.
2 MetPolice officers tasked to guard their bodies allegedly took selfies with the dead women and shared them around.
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Will Independent Office of Police Conduct #IOPC properly investigate:
•past conduct of 2 police officers who allegedly took selfie with bodies of murdered sisters?
•police who received images? who failed to report?
•unit, culture, practice?
This time, positive action?
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