{"id":12379,"date":"2021-08-05T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T09:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=12379"},"modified":"2021-08-01T13:14:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T13:14:03","slug":"black-lives-matter-london-5-aug-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=12379","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter London; 5 Aug 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Five years ago on the evening of Friday August 5th 2016, I was with a large crowd in Altab Ali Park. in East London to commemorate the many UK victims of state violence, including Mark Duggan, Sarah Reed, Mzee Mohammed, Jermaine Baker, Sean Rigg, Leon Patterson, Kingsley Burrell and over 1500 others, disproportionately black, since 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A relative of Sheku Bayoh<\/a>, killed by police in Scotland in 2015 speaking<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The event was called BLMUK<\/a>, a community movement of activists from across the UK who believe deeply that #BlackLivesMatter but are not affiliated with any political party. They called for justice and an end to racialised sexism, classism and homophobia and a new politics based on community defence and resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2020 BLMUK registered as a community benefit society, with the name Black Liberation Movement UK, but they continue to campaign under the names Black Lives Matter UK and BLMUK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marcia Rigg, whose brother Sean Rigg was killed by police<\/a> in Brixton <\/em>in 2008,<\/em> raises her fist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Forming a legal society enabled them to access the \u00a31.2m in donations from GoFundMe, and they have already distributed a number of small grants<\/a> to fund projects by other groups, including the United Friends and Families Campaign<\/a>,<\/em> grass roots trade unions United Voices of the World<\/em> (UVW) and International Workers of Great Britain <\/em>(IWGB), UK based campaigning groups and others serving the black community, including the African Rainbow Family<\/em>, Sistah Space<\/em> and B\u2019Me Cancer Communities<\/em> and two international Black organisations, the Sindicato de Manteros de Madrid<\/em> (Street Vendors Union) and Abahlali baseMjondolo<\/em> in Durban, South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stephanie Lightfoot-Bennett whose twin brother Leon Patterson<\/a> was battered to death by police in a Stockport cell in 1992<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The event took place five years and one day after the shooting by police of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, which led to riots across London. The police officer who shot Duggan refused to give an interview with the IPCC but later submitted a written testimony. Police accounts of the event – themselves inconsistent – did not tally with those of other witnesses, including the driver of the minicab which was carrying Duggan, nor with the ballistic evidence. As usual, police and the IPCC leaked misleading stories to the press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sisters Uncut shrine for those who have died in custody<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Although the inquest jury finally gave a majority verdict of ‘lawful killing’, many regard the killing as a criminal execution of a black man, shot at point-blank range after he had been pinned to the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Altab Ali Park was an appropriate location, its name commemorating a Bangladeshi textile worker stabbed to death by three teenagers in the park in a racially motivated killing on 4th May 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the speeches, the crowd split into four large groups to discuss future community organisation against racism in North, South, East and West London, and shortly after I left for home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More pictures: Black Lives Matter London<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All photographs on this and my other sites, unless otherwise stated, are taken by and copyright of Peter Marshall, and are available for reproduction or can be bought as prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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