So @metpoliceuk set up Boombox music shop using black undercover officers to lure in young Black people with freebies and inducements, then casually asked them to get drugs for their influential music mates. 35 convicted. Straight up entrapment #Boomboxapple.news/AWWXUbtTjSRiBu…
These tactics are still being used. There are over 10k paid Black active criminal informants in the paid employ of the Met. There are millions spent on setting up undercover youth groups, food shops, Barbers and hairdressers to entrap black youth. Disgusting and unethical
Lots of people are on the payroll either as informants or as grantees. The Met has infiltrated every aspect of our community from A- Z with these types of bait schemes. Spying, informers, undercover businesses, covert surveillance they're able to destroy innocent people lives.
No doubt they catch some bad guys too - but the Met and the Courts believe all black people are sus from the jump. That's how this thing is stacked, and by that we mean backed by stacks of cash inducements. Innocents are getting sucked in by association. It has to stop.
The @metpoliceuk trying to be your friend, we're here for the community, and we recognise your pain....its time to consider a full community boycott of any and all contact with the Met until we stop their active and relentless criminalisation of our communities.
@OpBlackVote@LabourBlackWom1@CLSUK1974@labourblacksoc1@socialistsunday We think it's fair to expect? No, actually, as socialists, we think it's a fundamental principle demand that @TheLabourParty_ be a shining example of race equality and opportunity for Black people. This report shows that the party neither values nor respects its Black members.
Not one African Caribbean individual or community organisation has been consulted or involved in the recruitment process for the New Met Commissioner. This is in a city where 2m people are of African descent. bit.ly/3ablzeM@ukhomeoffice@CollegeofPolice@TheVoiceNews
This is a fundamental error when considering the profound crisis in relations between the @metpoliceuk and London's African, Asian and Caribbean communities. A group of predominantly white men will be responsible for assessing the two candidates' understanding of institutional...
..racism and let's remind ourselves institutional racism is a reality that is totally rejected by @BorisJohnson@pritipatel and @kitmalthouse The @MayorofLondon is more sympathetic but even he has been sidelined in this whole process rendered silent by his @TfL budget crisis...
" We accept that policing still contains racism, discrimination and bias. We are ashamed of those truths, we apologise for them and we are determined to change them.” Then how do you repair the collateral damage done to Black communities by decades of criminalisation?
"Policing will ensure that officers and staff understand the history of policing Black people and the ongoing impact and trauma of disproportionality." One thing's for sure we have our own historical account of our relationship with the police. That story will be told.
White socialists can share the same racist views as the elite. Brexit made that plain. Lexiteers are happy to collude with xenophobia under cover of improving the plight of working class. The degree of class collaboration with the ruling elite is staggering. #socialistssunday
Some white socialist are blinded by white privilege, others adhere to a Stalinist ideological analysis that subjugates racism as a simply a by product of capitalism. Others see any black self organisation as a reactionary bourgeois threat to working class unity.
This economic reductionism trend has consistently marginalised black socialists. Black trade unionist are routinely failed by their Union representatives when it comes to challenging race which is why 98% of Race Employment Tribunals fail.
The problem for some sections of the left is their unrecognised paternalistic white privilege, class reductionism and anti fascist fetishisation at the expense of confronting systemic racism, is it condescendingly assumes that when it comes to fighting racism, they know best.
Anti fascism is the easiest form of anti racism to deal with given its binary nature. Tacking systemic racism is much more complex and demands you look at institutions, individuals and yourself in a critical light. This is sometimes reflexively seen as weakening the working class
It’s so much easier to chase bone head fascists than confront racist policing. Some on the left refuse to acknowledge their global position as a Labour aristocracy. They believe that they are the vanguard of working class struggle. All this amounts to an insufferable arrogance.