https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen Made with a dash of wit en-us 2021-12-13 04:52:33 UTC 2021-12-16 07:12:07 UTC hello@padlet.com SamBarnes https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1943710170

]]> 2021-12-13 04:58:02 UTC https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1943710170 SamBarnes https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1943729415 On the weekend of the 10-12 April 1981 hundreds of mostly black youths rioted in Brixton, South London.]]> 2021-12-13 05:17:25 UTC https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1943729415 SamBarnes https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1943731477 A useful summary]]> 2021-12-13 05:19:35 UTC https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1943731477 SamBarnes https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1943733931 2021-12-13 05:22:07 UTC https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1943733931 SamBarnes https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1943735094 The shortcomings of the police service were painfully exposed in the Macpherson report, particularly in the context of its relationship with minority communities, and the service was labelled as ‘institutionally racist’. The Macpherson report effectively completed the change in policing philosophy that Scarman had begun in terms of the service’s approach to diversity. Rarely, if ever, has the British police service publicly been laid so bare.]]> 2021-12-13 05:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1943735094 SamBarnes https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1944823162 The Act was a response to the Brixton riots of 1981 as well as the Scarman report.]]> 2021-12-13 15:32:43 UTC https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1944823162 SamBarnes https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1944838378 An independent review into the treatment of, and outcomes for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic individuals in the criminal justice system. The Lammy Review found significant racial bias in the UK justice system.]]> 2021-12-13 15:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1944838378 SamBarnes https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1945042964 The Birmingham riots of 2005 occurred on Saturday 22 October and Sunday 23 October 2005. The riots were derived from ethnic tensions between the Caribbean and British asian communities, with the spark for the riot being an alleged gang rape of a teenage black girl by a group of South Asian men. The rape allegation has never been substantiated and no evidence was found to support the rumour. The riots were connected to the deaths of two men, Isaiah Young-Sam and Aaron James.]]> 2021-12-13 16:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1945042964 SamBarnes https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1946646013 De Menezes was a 27-year-old electrician who was shot dead by police, who mistook him for a suicide bomber, on 22 July 2005. Officers were hunting terrorists who had tried to bomb London the previous day, two weeks after the 7 July attacks in the capital killed 52 people. He was shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder at point-blank range by officers from the Met police’s firearms unit. ]]> 2021-12-14 10:47:18 UTC https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1946646013 SamBarnes https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1946648412 Mark Duggan was shot dead by an officer in Tottenham, north London, after police believed he was carrying a gun - his death sparked riots in English cities across the country for nearly a week.]]> 2021-12-14 10:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1946648412 SamBarnes https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1946652873 Theresa May, the home secretary, announces a “comprehensive package” reforming the use of police stop and search powers. May tells MPs that as many as a 250,000 street searches were probably carried out illegally the previous year, with black people seven times more likely to be stopped by the police than white people.]]> 2021-12-14 10:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1946652873 SamBarnes https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1946655369 The biggest ever anti-racism protests spread across 260 UK towns and cities after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. The Black Lives Matter protests come after the Met and other forces responded to coronavirus lockdown regulations by massively increasing stop and search, and many of those taking part cit police harassment as a factor.]]> 2021-12-14 10:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/SamBarnes/dd9bi3nd4p6hpnen/wish/1946655369