In the London Borough of Hackney in the early hours of 22 July 2017 a police officer pursued a young Black man into a convenience store. Within minutes the young man was dead. A Novara Doc in partnership with Shine A Light.
Why has the conviction of the officer who killed Dalian Atkinson received such a tepid response? Because ending systemic racism will mean rethinking our very idea of justice, writes Moya Lothian-Mclean.
A police officer is finally standing trial for the death of footballer Dalian Atkinson, who died after being tased for six times longer than standard practice. The case has reignited debate around the police’s most controversial weapon and the company that produces it, writes Sandeep Sandhu.
Following the state-sanctioned massacre of protestors in Nigeria calling for an end to police brutality, Annie Olaloku-Teriba argues that for the #EndSARS movement to succeed, it must go beyond pacifying the middle classes and recognise the relationship between institutional violence and socioeconomic disadvantage.
Long read: When and why were police forces first invented? Connor Woodman takes a look - and argues that far from protecting communities from ‘crime’, the police’s role has always been to control and discipline the working class.
Pundits have been taking it upon themselves to tell the Black Lives Matter movement that the demand to abolish the police is the wrong one. Sarah Jaffe argues abolitionism has been making gains for decades - and now it’s breaking through.
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