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THREAD // STATE VIOLENCE // RACE // & BORDERS
Earlier this month, a black man was violently tasered by the @gmpolice as his young toddler son looked on, screaming & crying. While anti-racist Mancunians protested this egregious level of violence... https://news.sky.com/story/man-tasered-by-police-in-front-of-young-child-investigation-launched-11985163
Earlier this month, a black man was violently tasered by the @gmpolice as his young toddler son looked on, screaming & crying. While anti-racist Mancunians protested this egregious level of violence... https://news.sky.com/story/man-tasered-by-police-in-front-of-young-child-investigation-launched-11985163
@AndyBurnhamGM made a statement indicating that the @gmpolice were "right to apprehend the individual" while separating the father from his visibly distraught son. Meanwhile in April, while under lockdown the @gmpolice again arrested another Black man providing...
mutual aid to vulnerable relatives. While neighbours filmed this altercation, @gmpolice threatened him & those coming to his defence. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/coronavirus-lockdown-police-officer-manchester-deliver-food-vulnerable-investigation-a9460831.html
We've witnessed how laws, including COVID laws, have been weaponised to further harm Black, Brown & migrant communities.
We've witnessed how laws, including COVID laws, have been weaponised to further harm Black, Brown & migrant communities.
And yet while Minneapolis, Detroit, LA & other cities are rising up in solidarity against the brutal police killing of #GeorgeFloyd, we must NEVER FORGET the UK is still killing, brutalising, criminalising, detaining & deporting Black & PoCs. As @INQUEST_ORG reports, since...
1990, there has been 1,741 deaths in police custody in England & Wales. https://www.inquest.org.uk/deaths-in-police-custody
@INQUEST_ORG states that Black & Brown people die disproportionately as a result of use of force or restraint by the police: https://www.inquest.org.uk/bame-deaths-in-police-custody
@INQUEST_ORG states that Black & Brown people die disproportionately as a result of use of force or restraint by the police: https://www.inquest.org.uk/bame-deaths-in-police-custody
Just last night another Black man in South London was brutalised by the @metpoliceuk.
You can hear him scream, "I can't breathe" while 5 officers lay on top of his body. https://www.facebook.com/100011023545242/videos/1135995906777850/UzpfSTcyMDk5NTg0MjoxMDE1Njk0NzM1NTk3NTg0Mw/?notif_id=1590914868644128¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic
You can hear him scream, "I can't breathe" while 5 officers lay on top of his body. https://www.facebook.com/100011023545242/videos/1135995906777850/UzpfSTcyMDk5NTg0MjoxMDE1Njk0NzM1NTk3NTg0Mw/?notif_id=1590914868644128¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic
The police violence that we see on our streets is the state violence that we are experiencing with the many xeno-racist laws created by both @Conservatives & @UKLabour that continue to criminalise & oppress Black & PoC lives through borders & prisons.
And the legacy of the violence that we are witnessing throughout the UK & in the US is down to British imperialism & collusion with the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. British universities would not exist without the money that was made through plantations & colonial plundering.
Cities like Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London, Liverpool, & Manchester would not have existed had it not been for the profiting as a result of the slave trade & colonialism. British banking, businesses, & its aristocracy have all profited from this violence.
It is disappointing when British people talk about the death of #GeorgeFloyd as something distant & distinctly American in tone, without realising that this violence that we are witnessing Stateside has it's roots in this country's legacy of imperialism, colonialism & genocide.
@UnisNotBorders needs to see more people working with us & all others to LOUDLY oppose stop and search on Black & Brown people, the Prevent Duty, War on Terror laws, the expansion of the prison industry, end #HostileEnvironment policy, & the UK arms trade industry!
Let's end the cycle of white supremacy, xeno-racism, & capitalistic exploitation. Join & support these groups: @DocsNotCops @daikonzine @brisantiraids @HaringeyAR @NELMAcampaigns @Newham_AR @antiraidsBTN @abolish_prevent @SmashIPP @CAPExpansion @UnityCentreGlas @UFFCampaign
