Deaths in Custody
News in brief
05 May 2015Short news stories from the past week including deaths due to cuts to be investigated, Britain 24th in State of the World's Mothers report, and two deaths in custody.
Baltimore - how poverty and police racism ignited a city
05 May 2015When cops in Baltimore arrested Freddie Gray and threw him screaming in pain into the back of their van, they thought no one would question their actions. When Freddie died in that same truck, they thought they’d get away with it. Not this time, writes Ken Olende
Creating monsters - the murder of Zahid Mubarek
28 April 2015A new film We Are Monster explores the build up to a notorious racist murder in Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution in 2000. The filmmakers and the uncle of the murder victim talk to Simon Basketter
‘I can’t breathe’—cop tells of Kingsley Burrell’s plea
28 April 2015The inquest into the death of Kingsley Burrell heard how he was strapped on a trolley, handcuffed and in leg restraints for two hours.
March for Aston Williams
21 April 2015The family of a man who died after a collision with a police car led a march to Reading Police station last Saturday to demand justice.
Protest demands justice after Henry Hicks' death
07 April 2015More than 1,000 people marched through north London on Saturday of last week demanding justice for Henry Hicks, who died as police chased him.
Mark Duggan - a death retold
31 March 2015The police shot and killed Mark Duggan in 2011. Now their supporters are rewriting history after a new IPCC report let the cops off the hook. But the facts don’t fit their tidy narrative, as Annette Mackin discovers
Over 500 black and ethnic minority people have died in state custody since 1991
24 March 2015More than 500 black and ethnic minority people died at the hands of the state over the last 24 years. And no one has been successfully prosecuted for their deaths.
Habib "Paps" Ullah cops face further questions after inquest
03 March 2015A jury concluded this week that Habib “Paps” Ullah’s death in custody was a result of "misadventure".
Ferguson Solidarity meetings discuss how to get justice
27 January 2015Some 150 people attended the launch of the Ferguson Solidarity tour in Brixton, south London, last Saturday.
Ferguson solidarity tour comes to Britain
20 January 2015Reverend Osagyefo Sekou, a leading figure in the #blacklivesmatter protests in the US, is coming to Britain this week for a Ferguson solidarity tour.
Luton police station shuts as protest demands justice
13 January 2015Luton police station shut down last Sunday as hundreds of people marched through the town calling for justice against police brutality.
Anger at police racism spreads across US
16 December 2014Tens of thousands of people protested in cities across the US last weekend to demand justice for victims of police racism.
Jimmy Mubenga guards cleared of manslaughter
16 December 2014Three G4S guards were found not guilty of the manslaughter of Jimmy Mubenga.
G4S guard testifies in Jimmy Mubenga manslaughter trial
02 December 2014G4S guard Terrence Hughes told London’s High Court that he could not recall hearing Jimmy Mubenga calling, “I can’t breathe”.
Campaigners slam police spies
18 November 2014Organising to fight state repression was the theme of the Defend the Right to Protest national conference last Saturday. Some 200 people came to the event at the Soas university campus in central London.
'I'll keep fighting to find out how my son died in jail'
11 November 2014An inquest showed serious discrepancies in the official account of Marlon McIntosh’s death in Birmingham prison, reports Annette Mackin
Mark Duggan officer is accused of 'misconduct'
28 October 2014A police officer from the anti-gang Operation Trident, who was involved in the events leading to Mark Duggan’s shooting, is being investigated for alleged misconduct.
London protest over deaths in police custody
28 October 2014Some 300 people attended the annual United Families and Friends’ march and vigil in London last Saturday.
Reports round-up
21 October 2014Short reports on Yorkshire Freedom Rides campaign, protesting against deaths in custody, Bolton health anti-privatisation campaign and strikes by prison officers, refuse collectors and train conductors
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