Mina Smallman: "I want #BlackLivesMatter not to become a slogan every time something appalling happens, & then we all retreat. I want it to make a change and a difference. Like the #MeToo . Like the #TimesUp I want positive action to come out of this."
9/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm
Interviewer: "But it's nearly 30 years since the Stephen Lawrence inquiry. What has changed?"

Mina Smallman: "Nothing. They've just got better at covering it up. It is so entrenched in the whole ethos that they've normalised it."
[17.42]
10/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm
Mina Smallman: "The job of the police is to keep the bad guys out. Not to behave like the bad guys. Black people don't feel they can call the police and trust them to deal with their issues.. . .

[17.42]

11/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm
"Because all kinds of assumptions are being made about who they are, because of where they live, or because of their circumstances. It's not good enough. It really isn't good enough"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm

[17.42]

12/
Mina Smallman on #bbcnews Fri 26 June.
Her daughters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were stabbed to death in a Wembley park.
2 MetPolice officers tasked to guard their bodies allegedly took selfies with the dead women and shared them around.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm
[17.42] 13/
Will Independent Office of Police Conduct #IOPC properly investigate:
•past conduct of 2 police officers who allegedly took selfie with bodies of murdered sisters?
•police who received images? who failed to report?
•unit, culture, practice?
This time, positive action?
14/
You can follow @SHINEreports.
Tip: mention @twtextapp on a Twitter thread with the keyword “unroll” to get a link to it.

Latest Threads Unrolled: