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US cops have launched an offensive against calls for an end to police brutality, writes Annette Mackin

A man died after police tasered him last month. Adrian McDonald collapsed and later died after police were called to an address in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.

Tens of thousands of people protested in cities across the US last weekend to demand justice for victims of police racism.

Around 400 people held a die-in yesterday evening, Wednesday, at west London’s plush Westfield shopping centre.

Police attacked anti-fees student protesters occupying a room at Warwick University on Wednesday last week.

Cities and university campuses across the US have erupted in fury after yet another white cop has avoided charges for killing a black man.

Three police officers and a community support officer from Avon and Somerset police are charged with misconduct in public office over Bijan Ebrahimi’s killing in July 2013.

Simon Basketter looks at the Home Office’s new ‘counter-terrorism’ bill

Thousands protested across the US last week over the decision not to charge Darren Wilson, the cop who killed black teenager Michael Brown in August.

Fred Hampton, leader of the Black Panther Party in Illinois, was gunned down by police on 4 December 1969. He was just 21.

Former police officers were asked to “review” their evidence in the wake of the 1989 Hillsborough football disaster.

Around 1,000 people demonstrated in London in solidarity with Ferguson protesters yesterday, Wednesday.