Yesterday, 24 year old man in Cardiff died after being subject to a violent arrest.

His name was Mohamud Mohammed Hassan.This thread is being written to compile everything that has been released over the past 24 hours in one place.

This is Mohamud.

#BlackLivesMatter [1] Veteran community activist, Lee Jasper, released this blog last night. We have gotten a lot of this information from Lee's blog, and we are so grateful for his work on this. [2]

Our lives as welsh language speaking of colour differ hugely from the lives of non-POC who speak Welsh and and people of colour who don’t speak Welsh. A thread. 1/ There is an idea that only white people speak Welsh. This is plainly untrue. Many people of colour speak Welsh, and according to historian @Seimon_Brooks_, around 10% of #Cardiff docklands spoke Welsh during the heyday of shipping in South Cardiff 2/

#DidYouKnow that #Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 is home to the oldest continuous #Black community in #Britain🇬🇧? From now until the end of #BlackHistoryMonth, we are going to be sharing facts+information about #Black heritage in #Wales to highlight hidden histories

#BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory 1/ Check out this website from @TigerBayWorld called "the Heritage and Cultural Exchange Archive". There is a wealth of resources including #OralHistory 🗣️, photographs and documents 2/

hcearchive.org.uk/collection-tree

#Hanes #Cymru #Treftadaeth #HanesDu #MisHanesDu #TigerBay

Even if a BAME woman is elected, the Senedd is not fit for purpose. 1 BAME woman won't change the dynamic of the Senedd. If the Senedd had never elected a Welsh language speaking white man, there would be uproar: and its legitimacy would be questioned: so why not 4 race+ gender?

https://twitter.com/rcccymru/status/1303981530709196801

What we have seen is a culmination of 20 years of ignoring discussions on "diversity" [who is "diverse"+ who isn't given location of Senedd in #Butetown, Wales 2nd most racially diverse ward?]. We have seen conversations on gender that resulted in gender shortlists w/o BAME women

Ydych chi'n gwybod am ymglymiad Cymru🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 yn y fasnach gaethweision? Defnyddiwch y wefan hon i ddarganfod mwy

ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ Cam 1: Ewch i'r wefan
Cam 2: Ewch i'r gronfa ddata i "advanced search"
Cam 3: Chwlwch am "Cymru"
Cam 4: Darllenwch y wybodaeth

A controversial housing development has been given the green light🚦by Cardiff Council despite huge widespread opposition, two committee members failing to show up...yet the development on the site of Track 2000 will be going ahead 1/

https://twitter.com/pentregardensCf/status/1298714336534261762

Grangetown is the most multiracial part of Wales. Gentrification has made Grangetown and especially south and north Grangetown an attractive area as rent prices rise in #Cardiff, often pushing out Grangetownians who can't afford to live there any more 2/

#BritishEmpire is trending on twitter: and so is #BlackLivesMatter. We want to take this moment to raise awareness of the the nature Wales shares with the British Empire 1/ Both colonised and subject to colonisation, Wales has a radical potential for radical solidarity and decolonisation. We need decolonisation, desperately, and anti-colonisation, as colonialism in #Wales is not over, nor is colonialism undertaken by the #BritishEmpire 2/

Police diversity: 'Why join a force of people you mistrust?'. Of 6,999 officers serving in Wales, 128 (1.82%) identify as BAME or mixed race, the latest Office for National Statistics figures show: a Thread 1/

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-… Wales' most racially diverse place is #Cardiff. In #Cardif, 20% of the population are #Black, #Asian or #MinorityEthnic. These are the most recent rates of stop and search according to race in #Cardiff

stop-watch.org/your-area/area… 2/

BAME students have been disproportionately effected and ignored in national conversations on the A Level scandal in Wales. 1/ Magazines and newspapers will lead with its disproportionate impact on working class communities, but fail to spell out exactly how this disproportionate effect has manifested as a continuation of institutional racism in devolved Wales. 2/

1] Location of Welsh language schools in areas of Wales
2] Huge historic lack of Welsh language schools
3] Lack of other Welsh language schools in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Areas: especially Tiger Bay [see point two] or areas where Black communities live

https://twitter.com/niallapdafydd89/status/1287335946145411074

4] Perceived higher/more intense levels of racism at Welsh language schools
5] Unconscious bias from staff members
6] Fears of bullying owing to lack of BAME pupils and BAME staff in Welsh language schools
7] Fear of institutional racism/unconscious/conscious bias from teachers

#DidYouKnow that #Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 is 6% #Black, #Asian and #Minority #Ethnic? In 2011, this was 4%, and has grown by 2% over the past 9 years. Over 50% of #Wales lives in or around Cardiff, Newport or Swansea...

#Cardiff is 20.6% #BAME
#Swansea is 10.8% #BAME
#Newport is 13.1% #BAME

We are a group of people of colour who are supportive of #YesCymru and discussions in #Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 for #independence/#annibyniaeth.

We have created YesCymruPOC to adequately address topics of equality, representation, diversity and race in the #Welsh independence movement. 1/ Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 has a future beyond an unequal relationship in the Union🇬🇧, one that is based on exploitation, poverty and a lack of a developed public political sphere in Wales. 2/