{"id":16614,"date":"2024-10-26T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=16614"},"modified":"2024-10-23T13:01:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T12:01:26","slug":"uffc-21st-remembrance-procession-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=16614","title":{"rendered":"UFFC 21st Remembrance Procession – 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UFFC 21st Remembrance Procession<\/strong>: Saturday 26th October 2019 saw the 21st annual remembrance procession by the United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC), a coalition of of people killed by police, in prisons, in immigration detention and in secure psychiatric hospitals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This takes place on the last Saturday of October each year, and people will meet for today’s procession<\/a> on 26th October 2024 as usual at noon in Trafalgar Square. It will have added resonance for some following the ‘Not Guilty’ verdict earlier in the week for the officer who fired the fatal shot into the head of Chris Kaba two years ago in Streatham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Each year sees new names added to those who have died in custody under suspicious circumstances – several thousand since 1990. Not one of those responsible have been convicted of murder or manslaughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many of the suspicions may be unfounded, but others are clearly not. Relatively few have ever been properly investigated, and often there has clearly been a deliberate failure to do so on the part of the authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inquests have often been delayed for years, and evidence simply not recorded. Only the most determined of family campaigners have succeeded in getting at the truth. A few of these cases have become well known – such as those of Sean Rigg, Christopher Alder and Leon Patterson, but none has yet really resulted in justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coroners have sometimes refused to allow proper consideration of the possible responsibility of the police and courts have at times come to conclusions that seem to fly in the face of the evidence. Police officers have on occaison colluded with each other to commit perjury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The so-called Independent Police Complaints Commission<\/a> (IPCC) began work in 2003. Wikepedia notes that in 2008 “over a hundred lawyers who specialise in handling police complaints resigned from its advisory body, citing various criticisms of the IPCC including a pattern of favouritism towards the police, indifference and rudeness towards complainants, and complaints being rejected in spite of apparently powerful evidence in their suppor<\/em>t.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Parliamentary Inquiry set up in 2012 described it as having “neither the powers nor the resources that it needs to get to the truth when the integrity of the police is in doubt.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2018 the IPCC was replaced by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). Again Wikipedia quotes from a Parliamentary report<\/a> published on it in 2002: \u201cThere needs to be a change of culture in police forces. It should not be necessary to compel officers to cooperate with investigations. This culture change must be from top to bottom to ensure that complaints are handled quickly and openly, delivering punishment for misconduct where necessary and clearing officers who have not committed an offence<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also we have the Crown Prosecution Service, with Keir Starmer at its head from 2008-2013. Together there seems to be clear evidence of a powerful system of injustice which has protected police. And one of the most frequent chants at this and other events has long been ‘NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many at the protest carry banners, poster and placards with names and pictures of those who have been killed. I’ve written in previous posts about many of them and more details are on various web sites, Facebook and elsewhere. Recently I published a post here Sean Rigg Memorial \u2013 4 Years<\/a> about a rally in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More pictures UFFC 21st remembrance procession<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were other events I photographed on 26th October 2019 – you can find them on My London Diary<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flickr<\/a> – Facebook<\/a> – My London Diary<\/a> – Hull Photos<\/a> – Lea Valley<\/a> – Paris<\/a>
London’s Industrial Heritage<\/a> – London Photos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All photographs on this page are copyright \u00a9 Peter Marshall.
Contact me to buy prints or licence to reproduce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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