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21 Apr, 8 tweets, 5 min read
1/8 thread 👇🏽How convenient- head of Scottish Police Federation on #GeorgeFloyd but next week he’s in court to stop misconduct action after making a joke of #ShekuBayoh death in police custody. SPF are accused by Sheku’s family of smearing a dead man & trying to silence them
2/8 #LineOfDuty? Scottish Police Federation spent thousands defending itself on misconduct allegation over #ShekuBayoh as well as multiple officers in Whatsapp group exposed over alleged racism & anti-semitism google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dail…
3/8 #ShekuBayoh death in police custody ‘Somebody has lost their life, so anybody who attempts to dehumanise, smear or downplay the seriousness of the matter needs to take a very long hard look at themselves & think twice about what they are doing’ dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-…
4/8 Collette Bell, who was Sheku’s partner & mother of his child said that Steele should be “ashamed of himself” & accused him of making a “joke” of Sheku’s death
google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dail…
5/8 Last Summer during #BlackLivesMatter SPF issued a grotesque statement which appeared to equate the actions of 1000s of peaceful Scottish protestors with the actions of far-right racist thugs who attacked asylum rights demo as well as police officers google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dail…
6/8 #LineOfDuty ? Scottish Police Federation spent 1000s over 4 years defending 10 police officers from action by @policescotland for allegedly sharing racist & antisemitic WhatsApp messages discovered during investigation into sexual misconduct theferret.scot/racist-message…
7/8 The Scottish Police Federation that represents frontline police officers has shown a “depressing” refusal to accept the extent of racism, sexism and misogyny in the ranks, former lord advocate Elish Angiolini QC has said thetimes.co.uk/article/scotti…
8/8 For far too long there has been a culture of denial of the issue of racism especially by those who represent the rank & file, the Scottish Police Federation #ShekuBayoh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿#GeorgeFloydverdict 🇺🇸thenational.scot/news/18863465.…

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Aamer Anwar🎗✊🏽#BlackLivesMatter Profile picture
21 Apr
#GeorgeFloydVerdict is not the end. No1 should be above the law, yet since 1969 not 1 police officer in the UK has been convicted of killing a person in custody, this verdict should be the beginning -Never forget #ShekuBayoh & so many more💔 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸
The UK is not innocent, there have been 1,741 deaths in police custody or otherwise following contact with the police since 1990. No police officer has ever been convicted in connection to those deaths. #GeorgeFloyd
#GeorgeFloyd was not just about racial injustice in the 🇺🇸 a black person in the UK is twice as likely to die in police custody than any other ethnicity. So what now?
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Aamer Anwar🎗✊🏽#BlackLivesMatter Profile picture
20 Apr
Thread 1/ 5 #LineOfDuty? Scottish Police Federation spent 100s of thousands defending itself from @policescotland on misconduct allegation over #ShekuBayoh as well as multiple officers in Whatsapp group exposed over alleged racism & anti-semitism google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dail…
2/5 Scottish Police Federation spent thousands over nearly 5 years defending 10 police officers from disciplinary action by @policescotland for allegedly sharing racist & antisemitic WhatsApp messages discovered during investigation into sexual misconduct theferret.scot/racist-message…
3/5 #ShekuBayoh death in police custody “Somebody has lost their life, so anybody who attempts to dehumanise, smear or downplay the seriousness of the matter needs to take a very long hard look at themselves and think twice about what they are doing. google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dail…
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15 Apr
1/ 10👇🏽This ‘hysterical’ letter by HQ of President Czech Republic, claims Kudela’s UEFA’s tokenistic 10-game ban by @UEFA for racism against @GlenKamara4 was “just to fulfill the perverted expectations of a small group of activists.” Translation👇🏽hrad.cz/cs/pro-media/t…
2/10 The statement is deeply offensive, smacks of racism, perpetuates untruths & looks more like a diatribe by the far-right, it is also insulting & demeaning to the office of the President & the Czech people that this has been put out publicly-
3/10 This letter at times borders on insanity, I’d strongly urge the President to disassociate himself from this ‘rabid’ statement that contradicts & conflicts with the apology issued by Slavia Prague, it will only succeed in inciting more racists to come out of their sewers
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Aamer Anwar🎗✊🏽#BlackLivesMatter Profile picture
19 Mar
Dear @HumzaYousaf we have been pushed further & further towards the point at which legal assistance for the poor & marginalised will simply just disappear. The title Justice Minister is not just about prosecution but also defence- we need you to break your silence on #SLAB 1/12
You offered a £9M resilience fund, yet the vast majority of firms who suffered up to 50% cuts in income are told by SLAB they estimate their income will have gone up & refused any help, they could have looked at what was paid out instead of estimates plucked out of the sky🙈2/12
The biggest victims of failing legal aid will be the poor, children,homeless,addicts, care leavers, victims of sexual abuse –LA provides an indispensable foundation of support for society’s most vulnerable people,without which many will be placed at future risk of harm.3/12
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29 Nov 20
5 1/2 years ago #ShekuBayoh died in police custody after being restrained by multiple officers, batoned,sprayed&cuffed, in his death he was stereotyped & criminalised,but his family fought back for him,2moro the Public Inquiry formally begins & then adjourns 4several months 1/7
To allow preparation,that the Public Inquiry came about at all is the direct result of the tenacious determination & campaigning of Sheku’s partner Collette & his family.They suffered considerable anguish,anger&frustration about the lack of accountability after Sheku’s death.2/7
In the UK there has never been a successful manslaughter prosecution of any officer either at an individual or senior management level for police-related deaths, despite evidence of unlawful or excessive use of force or gross neglect.3/7
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27 Nov 20
Edinburgh Criminal lawyers will withdraw their Labour on St.Andrew’s day 30th November due to the abject failure of @scotgov to deal with the decimation of #LegalAid & impact of #Covid19- Its time the rest of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿criminal bar united & did the same as edinbarassoc.com 1/9👇🏽
Despite the 3% increase in fees across the board announced in November 2018, previous cuts mean the fixed fee for a summary trial is lower than it was in 1999.  It is 21 years since that rate was fixed. 2/9 Image
The problems faced by the profession have been growing for decades and have been exacerbated by the Covid 19 pandemic.   When lockdown was this year, most of the business in the Sheriff Courts ground to a halt.  Legal aid practitioners were required to cover urgent business 3/9 Image
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