Co-Director, Centre for Research on Race and Law @CentreRaceLaw | Tweets are my own.
Sep 30, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1/7 Reading what Sarah Everard suffered, knowing that an abuse of power enabled it, I'm filled with rage and a desperate wish we could have done something to protect her, to stop what happened, but also to have empowered her to say no, I don't trust you *because* you are police
2/7 because we knew, we know, the brutal violence that is the everyday task of the police and the myth that the institution is there to protect us. A part of me feels defeated, that because Sarah is gone, because of what she suffered, because it can never be undone, all is lost.
Jul 22, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Michael Buerk Andrew Doyle Nesrine Malik Mona Siddiqui & Tim Stanley didn't know I was still on the call after we recorded #MoralMaze@BBCRadio4 Here are quotes & approximations of what they said about me. We know how they speak about us but it's another thing to hear them do it
Michael Buerk: That was good wasn't it. That first speaker, she really got the Maxim guns out didn't she?
Nesrine Malik: Yeah, she was great. It's good to have someone like that on.
Jun 7, 2020 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Thread on police tactics at protests. 1/12 When you avidly tweet an image of what you think is an act of violence by a protester you are not only distracting from the power and importance of #BLMLondon you are failing to consider the effect of violent police tactics at protests.
The police are not neutral observers at protests. I have written about the effect of police tactics at the 2010 anti-fees protests where the police charged peaceful static crowds with horses, used batons to their heads and kettled them, including on Westminster Bridge, for hours.
Dec 12, 2019 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
Day 7 of the disciplinary hearing for PC Alston, alleged to have used his baton in a dangerous and uncontrolled manner and to have struck Alfie Meadows on the head at the student protest of 9 Dec 2010 and caused him a serious brain injury. Panel due to deliver their decision now.
Panel coming in now.
Dec 10, 2019 • 102 tweets • 16 min read
Day 5 of the disciplinary hearing for PC Mark Alston, alleged to have used his baton in a violent, uncontrolled and dangerous manner when he used it to deliver a number of downward strikes at head height in a manner that was unreasoble in all the circumstances and risked causing
head injuries to protesters and striking Alfie Meadows with his baton and causing him a serious head injury. Alfie Meadows will be continuing to give evidence today. We adjourned yesterday mid examination by the defence barrister. Expected to begin in 15 minutes.
Dec 4, 2019 • 76 tweets • 21 min read
Disciplinary hearing for PC Mark Alston (officer who struck Alfie Meadows on the head with his batton) at anti-fees protest outside Parliament on Dec 9 2010 just getting started now at City of London Police station.
For context, see press release about the hearing defendtherighttoprotest.org/justice-for-al…
