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Ultraviolence: the shocking, brutal film about deaths in police custody
Two decades ago the police tried to silence Ken Feroรขโฌโขs fearless documentary Injustice. Twenty years later, his follow-up is filled with even more pain and outrage. Ultraviolence was launched at the 2020 BFI Film Festival.
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UFFC annual memorial family event for 2020 moves online
Due to Covid restrictions UFFC will be holding this years 22nd annual memorial event online. All families are requested to submit a two-minute clip of the story of their loved ones to shared in an online collage on 31 October.
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From the makers of INJUSTICE comes Ultraviolence (BFI Film Festival 2020)
15 years after Ken Feroรขโฌโขs ground-breaking film Injustice, which examined deaths in police custody, comes a compelling follow-up ‘Ultraviolence’ that feels as timely as ever. Screens at BFI Film Festival, 12 October 2020.
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Filmmaker Ken Fero: รขโฌหThere are serious problems here in terms of deaths in police custodyรขโฌโข
Ken Feroรขโฌโขs film, รขโฌหInjusticeรขโฌโข documented deaths in police custody during the 1990s. Campaigners have petitioned for it to be shown on Channel 4 รขโฌโ but now it will screen at the British Film Institute in London.
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Taser trauma: an increasingly British phenomenon
An IRR News researcher speaks to scholars and campaigners across the country about the disproportionate use of Tasers on over-policed BME communities, as the IOPC announces an inquiry into police discrimination.
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Cherry Groce: Mum’s police shooting ‘robbed me of my childhood’
Lee Lawrence was just 11 years old when his life changed forever. He had fallen asleep in his mother’s room and was awoken by a loud noise. She went to investigate but moments later he heard a gunshot.
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‘Abuse of power’: global outrage grows after death of George Floyd
The EUรขโฌโขs top diplomat has described the death ofรย George Floydรย as an รขโฌลabuse of powerรขโฌย, adding his voice to growing international unease over the US killing as well as Washingtonรขโฌโขs subsequent violent crackdown against protesters.
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George Floyd death: Ex-officer charged with murder in Minneapolis
A former Minneapolis police officer has been charged with murder following the death of an unarmed black man in custody. The officer was shown in footage kneeling on George Floyd’s neck. He and three other officers were sacked.
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Watch as ‘innocent cyclist repeatedly punched by police officer’
This is the shocking moment a man is hauled over the bonnet of a police car and and repeatedly punched by an officer. The cop involved in the incident has now been suspended after the CCTV emerged.
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Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on the UK
The Council of Europeรขโฌโขs Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment has published the report on its visit to the UK, in May 2019, and response of UK authorities.