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Custody Deaths, Vegans & Fracking:<\/strong> Saturday 29th October 2016 I photographed the annual United Family & Friends Procession and Rally against deaths in custody. My day had begun with a protest outside a Barclays Branch in Piccadilly Circus over their support for fracking, and the UFFC march was held up to allow a vegan march to go past to a rally in Parliament Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2026 United Family & Friends Procession<\/a> is this Saturday, 31st October 2026, meeting at noon in Trafalgar Square. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Families United against Custody Deaths<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Janet Alder whose son Christopher was killed by police in Hull leads the procession from Trafalgar Square<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On My London Diary<\/a> you can read a little more about some of the cases of those who have died while in police custody in suspicious circumstances, in some cases clearly murdered by police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first page of the list of over 3000 who are known to have died in custody since 1969<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Very few of the cases of 3,180 people known to have died in suspicious circumstances in custody since 1969 have ever come to court. Mostly the official investigations by the so-called independent bodies which investigate the police (formerly the IPCC, now the Independent Office for Police Conduct – IOPC) have failed to carry out their work in a proper or timely fashion almost certainly deliberately to make any prosecutions impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The DPP also appear to have colluded in this with the result that with there has been no justice done. In my post on My London Diary<\/a> there are just a few of many examples. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Raised fist salutes as the march goes down Whitehall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kadisha Brown-Burrell, whose brother Kingsley died in police custody in 2011<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There was a brief pause for remembrance at the monument to the Women of World War II<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The mother of Amy El-Keria, who died aged 14 in a Kent hospital. An inquest found there had been gross negligence but no one has been prosecuted for her death.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The procession moved at its usual funereal pace down Whitehall, stopping completely numerous times on the way, taking around half an hour to cover the few hundred yards. Families and banners lined the side of the road and speakers from the families spoke in the southbound lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marcia Rigg holds up the letter to Theresa May<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I had to leave before the speeches were finished shortly and before a small deputation went to take a letter for Theresa May to Downing St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many more pictures on My London Diary at Families United against Custody Deaths<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bring Fracking Home to Barclays<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Piccadilly Circus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ‘living room’ with a mother and daughter from Ryedal and the fracking rig in front of Barclays<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Before the United Families and Friends protest I had gone to Golden Square to meet protesters preparing for a protest outside the Piccadilly Circus branch of Barclays Bank, which is involved in fracking in communities across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Taking Fracking to Barclays Piccadilly<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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and setting up the living room in front of the branch after the doors were shut as they tried to enter<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

They practised anti-fracking songs and chants around a mock fracking rig before picking this up and walking towards the branch. On their way they met others carrying a a sofa, table and other furnishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Protesters inside hold up their banner in the window<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Others had gone ahead and entered the bank branch with hidden banners. As the main group came into view security at Barclays locked the door and those inside got out their banners, holding them against the windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The protesters outside set up a ‘living room’ on the pavement along with the fracking rig and its operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tea table, Living Room & Fracking Rig at Barclays<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“A mother and daughter from Ryedale where fracking has been approved around their home made themselves at home on the sofa with a picture of their house and a framed sampler embroidered with the Barclays eagle and the message ‘Home Fracked Home’.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tea was served – and I had a cup as well as<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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a ‘Stop Barclays Fracking’ biscuit<\/em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tea was served and there was a plate of specially baked biscuits with the message ‘Stop Barclays Fracking’. Leaflets explained that this protest, organised by Frack Off London and Divest London with Frack Free Ryedale was part of a series of protests at branches of Barclays across the country against the bank which is hoping to make large profits from its investments in fracking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A few police came to tell the protesters they were obstructing the pavement, and made sure that there was plenty of space for people to walk past without having to go on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The protest was still continuing when I had to leave to go to the UFFC event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vegans march for Animal Rights<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The start of the United Family & Friends Procession was delayed for some minutes by police to enable a march by hundreds of vegans to pass on its way to Trafalgar Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organised by London Vegan Actions and Surge their protest called for an end to the exploitation and death of animals for food, fur and leather. They demanded an end to animal testing and for everyone to change to a vegan diet which would end horrific farming practices and cut greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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End All Animal Oppression<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Arguments developed as some of the marchers passing those meeting for the UFFC march shouted out ‘White Lives Matter<\/em>!’ Others on the vegan march, including some Black vegans as well as some from the UFFC event argued with them for being racist, but the UFFC stewards moved to quieten things down and the vegan march passed on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m opposed to farming practices involving animal cruelty but know that many farmers treat their animals well, and commented that although “a shift towards eating considerably less meat would make a welcome contribution to reducing global emissions, I think the world would be a much poorer place if we all took up a vegan diet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only would many become less healthy, as a varied diet is good for us, but animal farming is a vital part of our way of life and has largely formed our landscape. An England without sheep, cows, chickens and pigs would be a very different place, and these animals only exist because we breed them for meat and diary products.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More on My London Diary at Vegans march for Animal Rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Custody Deaths, Vegans & Fracking: Saturday 29th October 2016 I photographed the annual United Family & Friends Procession and Rally against deaths in custody. My day had begun with a protest outside a Barclays Branch in Piccadilly Circus over their support for fracking, and the UFFC march was held up to allow a vegan march … Continue reading Custody Deaths, Vegans & Fracking – 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[1971,26003,9396,10027,26010,378,2897,10345,18454,26015,26007,3598,280,14146,26008,5275,534,26012,26017,26001,26000,14411,1934,15261,6087,26009,17,26014,24221,244,1007,9236,83,628,16,26011,26002,26004,9178,26013,1514,2898,5820,26006,26016,991,26005],"class_list":["post-19557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-political-issues","tag-1971","tag-27th-annual-memorial","tag-andy-burnham","tag-annual-remembrance-procession","tag-barclays-piccadilly","tag-barclays-bank","tag-deaths-in-custody","tag-downing-street","tag-dpp","tag-end-animla-oppression","tag-failure-to-investigate","tag-food","tag-fracking","tag-fracking-rig","tag-funding-fracking","tag-fur","tag-greenhouse-gases","tag-home-fracked-home","tag-horrific-farming-practices","tag-in-immigration-detention","tag-in-prisons","tag-iopc","tag-ipcc","tag-killed-by-police","tag-leather","tag-living-room","tag-london","tag-london-vegan-actions","tag-long-grass","tag-march","tag-no-justice","tag-no-peace","tag-peter-marshall","tag-police","tag-protest","tag-rydale","tag-secure-psychiatric-hospitals","tag-state-custody","tag-surge","tag-tea-and-biscuits","tag-trafalgar-square","tag-uffc","tag-united-families-and-friends-campaign","tag-united-family-friends-procession","tag-vegan-diet","tag-vegans","tag-wall-of-silence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19560,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19557\/revisions\/19560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}