His song ‘My Block’, written after his friend Julian Cole’s life was ruined by four officers, has become an unofficial anthem of London’s Black Lives Matter protests. It’s time for justice, he tells Chanté Joseph
, “Our police aren’t armed, they don’t have guns, the legacy of slavery is not the same,” to which he responded by detailing the several acts of police violence, brutality and deaths in custody in the UK, including Julian Cole’s case.Here, black people have always had a fraught history with the police due to the disproportionate amount of force used against them and the constant harassment and surveillance. Black people areto be stopped and searched by the police than their white counterparts.
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