'When I was young, I was given ‘the talk’ by my brothers. They told me to never call the police if I was in trouble, I should call them instead. Their experience was that the police were against us.' DawnButler on the past and present of police injustice
in Islington, chillingly similar to George Floyd, after an officer had his knee on the man’s neck.
And perhaps most disturbingly, in Brent two Met officers were arrested for allegedly taking photos of the dead bodies of two murdered sisters,Their distraught mother relives that moment and says that it reminded her of the American deep south where white people would take pictures of Black people who had been hung.
In case anyone doubts the experiences of people of colour, the statistics are stark. The Met are four times more likely to use force on Black people. It is over 20 years since the McPherson report, which laid bare the extent of institutional racism of policing following theSadly, I have no faith in Met Commissioner Cressida Dick.
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