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The National Memorial Family Fund – Ambitious plans for the future!
The National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund has unveiled some ambitious plans for the future. It is hoped that the new initiatives will be rolled out over the next 3 years.
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The Watchmen : State Violence in a Democracy
The role of the police in western society is beginning to be understood and challenged in ways that were inconceivable only a decade ago. The belief in รขโฌหlaw and orderรขโฌโข and infallibility of the police is now seriously questioned.
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Police restraint contributed to Leon Briggs death, jury finds
The way in which police officers restrained a man with drug-induced psychosis รขโฌลmore than minimallyรขโฌย contributed to his death in Lutonรย in 2013, an inquest jury in Milton Keynes has found by unanimous verdict.
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BLM UK to fund ‘people’s tribunal’ for deaths in custody
BLM UK has announced รยฃ45,000 of funding to the United Families & Friends Campaign (The coalition group of family members who have lost loved ones in state custody) to set up a รขโฌลpeopleรขโฌโขs tribunalรขโฌย on deaths in custody.
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Watchdog drops probe of officers over Anthony Grainger shooting
The police watchdog has dropped an investigation into three former senior Greater Manchester Police officers over their ‘command and control’ of an armed operation during which a father-of-two was shot dead.
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Black Lives Matter UK to start funding groups from รยฃ1.2m donations
Black Lives Matter UK will be releasing more than รยฃ100,000 to black-led organisations across the country by the end of the month, as protesters pledge to build on last yearรขโฌโขs anti-racism demonstrations.
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Sister of Christopher Alder says she still has nightmares over brother’s death in custody
Falklands veteran Christopher Alder died in April 1998 after he was arrested for breaching the peace following a fracas outside a nightclub in which he was punched and taken to hospital.
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New evidence, fresh questions about death of young Black Londoner Rashan Charles
Police claimed the man who helped an officer restrain and handcuff Rashan Charles was รขโฌลa member of the publicรขโฌย with no police connection. CCTV evidence raises doubts.รย Shine A Light exclusive (distressing content).
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UFFC 2020 : Annual Letter to the UK Prime Minister
Traditionally, a letter is hand delivered to 10 Downing Street with the demands to reform state custody practices and procedures. This years letter was sent by post and is reproduced in full in this article.
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UFFC Rally 2020 : Memorial family event takes place online
In October 2020 the United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) annual protest & rally moved online with a powerful video tribute that remembered the victims and heard from some of the families affected.