tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62698310770558876922024-03-05T17:45:36.137-08:00Justice for Kingsley BurrellCampaigning for Justice for Kingsley Burrell and for legislative reform in regards to deaths in custody. In unity with all those who have lost a loved one in these circumstances.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269831077055887692.post-52826680309090828272012-07-09T06:09:00.000-07:002012-07-09T06:09:08.620-07:00Official poster/flyer for 2nd March 4 Justice 4 Kingsley Burrell<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Saturday 21st July 6-8pm<br />Saturday 28th July 6-8pm<br />Saturday 4th August 6-8pm<br />Saturday 11th August 6-8pm</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Please attend if you can and volunteer your time to help </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>co-ordinate the March on 18th August. </strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Justice4Kingsley">www.facebook.com/Justice4Kingsley</a></span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Twitter: @March4Justice</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>The second march for justice will be on August 18th in Birmingham. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Meet at <span class="visible">Summerfiel<wbr><span class="word_break"></span>d Park, Icknield Port Road B16 OBT at 12 noon, marching to Centenary square, Broad Street B1 2EA.</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Update: Body of Birmingham dad Kingsley Burrell not released one year on</span><br />
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<span class="u68" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="580">ANGRY relatives of Kingsley Burrell who mysteriously died after being detained by police a year ago are still waiting for his body to be released for his funeral.</span></div>
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<span class="u68" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="581">Kingsley Burrell, 29, dialled 999 after being threatened by a group of men while with his young son in Icknield Port Road, Birmingham, on March 27 last year. </span></div>
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<span class="u68" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="582">But when officers turned up they detained the trainee security guard under the Mental Health Act – despite his family saying he had no history of mental illness.</span></div>
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<span class="u68" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="596"> </span><span class="u68" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="595">Within hours Mr Burrell was sectioned and taken to a mental health unit in the city, where his family claim he had mysterious physical injuries and was not allowed to speak to them. </span></div>
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<span class="u68" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="597">Three days later, police were called to the Mary Seacole mental institute in Winson Green after an “incident” involving the dad-of-two and he was transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where he died on March 31.</span></div>
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<span class="u68" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="599">Last night Mr Burrell’s sister, Kadisha Brown-Burrell said the family still had no idea how he had died – and could still be months away from having a funeral.</span></div>
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<span class="u68" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="600">She said: “How can they keep a body for a year? It’s been more than a year now and they are dragging their heels. </span></div>
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<span class="u68" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="601">‘‘We are still grieving and need closure but have been told the Dorset Police investigation will take at least take another six months.</span></div>
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<span class="u68" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="603">‘‘It’s been painstakingly difficult, frustrating, and emotionally overwhelming for the family to begin to come to terms with his death. Especially, not being able to lay his body to rest, not knowing the sequence of events that led up to his death and how he died.’’</span></div>
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<span class="u68" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="604">Mr Burrell was dad to five-year-old son Kayden – who was with him when he was detained by police – and 10-year-old daughter Travita.</span></div>
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<span class="u68" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="605">Student Miss Brown-Burrell regularly visits her brother’s body, which is being held at the mortuary at Sandwell Hospital.</span></div>
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<span class="u68" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="607">“The family has now attended eight or nine pre-inquest hearings, yet still nobody can tell us what or who killed Kingsley. </span></div>
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<span class="u68" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="608">‘‘It’s not fair on his children, especially his little boy who can’t stop thinking and talking about what happened that day.”</span></div>
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<span class="u68" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="611">‘‘Footage from CCTV cameras at four locations has been recovered and reviewed and hundreds of documents have been seized as part of the independent investigation.</span></div>
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<span class="u68" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="612">“Earlier this year, after liaison with HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, Dorset Police were requested by the IPCC to begin an investigation into the actions of non-police personnel who had contact with Mr Burrell and they continue to undertake enquiries. </span></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC) calls <span style="background: white;">for an independent judicial</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> inquiry </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">into all suspicious deaths in custody</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">.</span></span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="background-color: white;">UFFC is a coalition of families and friends of those that have died in the custody of police and prison officers as well as those who died in psychiatric and immigration detention. It also has members and supporters from campaign groups and advocacy organisations from across the UK.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody report published in 2011 states: in total, there were 5,998 deaths recorded for the 11 years from 2000 to 2010. This is an average of 545 deaths per year.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Despite the fact there have been 11 unlawful killing verdicts since 1990 there has never been a successful prosecution.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="background-color: white;">Our joint efforts have yielded some results. The police self-investigation of deaths was replaced by the Independent Police Complaints Commission and the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman now investigates deaths in prison and immigration detention. The Attorney General was forced to undergo a review of the role of the Crown Prosecution Service, and corporate manslaughter laws are now extended to custody deaths.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="background-color: white;">However, these reforms have not addressed the lack of justice in outstanding cases. We believe that equitable dispensation justice in the UK must be done and be seen to be done if the general public are to enjoy high levels of trust and confidence in the fair administration of justice.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm -7.45pt 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo10; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">There should be an automatic right to non means tested legal aid for families. There is a lack of funds for family legal representation at Inquests whilst officers and NHS staff get full legal representation from the public purse – this is unbalanced. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="background-color: white;">US civil rights veteran, Rev Jesse Jackson supports the inquiry campaign.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"></span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><strong><span style="background-color: white;">UFFC website: </span></strong></span><a href="http://uffc-campaigncentral.net/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><strong><span style="background-color: white;">http://uffc-campaigncentral.net/</span></strong></span></a><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: white;">UFFC <span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Facebook Group:<span style="color: #c00000;"> </span></span></span></strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/United-Families-Friends-Campaign-UFFC/308702409174443?sk=wall" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><strong><span style="background-color: white;">http://www.facebook.com/pages/United-Families-Friends-Campaign-UFFC/308702409174443?sk=wall</span></strong></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
<strong><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></strong></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><strong><span style="background-color: white;">Facebook Petition page: </span></strong></span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/167075506731920/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><strong><span style="background-color: white;">http://www.facebook.com/events/167075506731920/</span></strong></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><strong><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"></span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><strong><span style="background-color: white;">For those wishing to lobby their local MP: </span></strong></span><a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><strong><span style="background-color: white;">http://www.theyworkforyou.com/</span></strong></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-8wpPKwsUvHMOmP1ELt4aTTFRQaRYYGBNWnCPmxd0-uwIyBcqSS7GFQ1_pL4wyhyIlaL4z9StRvR_A57gzVQhk36kJRR2Rx61B5Ujqsw2usEXsNl9KsqUGMp1mtKqcez0w2D17TKRAnf1/s1600/redtshirts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" nfa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-8wpPKwsUvHMOmP1ELt4aTTFRQaRYYGBNWnCPmxd0-uwIyBcqSS7GFQ1_pL4wyhyIlaL4z9StRvR_A57gzVQhk36kJRR2Rx61B5Ujqsw2usEXsNl9KsqUGMp1mtKqcez0w2D17TKRAnf1/s400/redtshirts.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269831077055887692.post-42642458569124544452011-07-12T18:58:00.000-07:002011-08-26T04:06:10.825-07:00Carnival Action Plan for Summer: collecting signatures and raising awareness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV3TqR6Pj47JvN2bgRW-ZanCb1-NXT9OWZkkSQKMkoIz7PO1XycglLGrBiYZeSfrI5YpcZk095M6hnckeIqH0VV_m47Oj-hbynEqnUMgqdsbCTlPgFcYk6tcEsptSJ6VVsjbG97Q_60joB/s1600/business+card+with+border.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="147" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV3TqR6Pj47JvN2bgRW-ZanCb1-NXT9OWZkkSQKMkoIz7PO1XycglLGrBiYZeSfrI5YpcZk095M6hnckeIqH0VV_m47Oj-hbynEqnUMgqdsbCTlPgFcYk6tcEsptSJ6VVsjbG97Q_60joB/s320/business+card+with+border.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>While you are out and about at carnivals and festivals over the summer, please spare some time to support the campaigns for justice. </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>We need you to collect signatures for the Petition for legislative reform regarding deaths in custody, and to give out fliers to raise awareness. </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Some people are already arranging to meet up so they can do this in teams, we will keep you updated on meeting times and places - if you want to arrange a team in your own area just go onto one of these Campaign FaceBook pages and post your info and admin will repost for you. </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>If you would like us to post information regarding an event that may be suitable in your own area, please post on the FaceBook pages as well. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Campaign for Justice for Kingsley Burrell: </strong></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Kingsley"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Kingsley</strong></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Campaign for Justice for Demetre Fraser aka T.Dot </strong></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Demetre"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Demetre</strong></span></a><br />
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<ul><li><strong> </strong><strong> <span style="font-size: large;">Paper petition is available to print out here: </span></strong><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/56836882/Paper-Petition-for-legislative-reform-in-regard-to-deaths-in-police-custody"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>http://www.scribd.com/doc/56836882/Paper-Petition-for-legislative-reform-in-regard-to-deaths-in-police-custody</strong></span></a></li>
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<ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Once you have collected signatures you need to transfer them to the online petition here: </strong></span><a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stopdeathsinpolicecustody/"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stopdeathsinpolicecustody/</strong></span></a></li>
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<ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Flyers can be printed out from here: </strong></span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/59851489/Flyer-for-distribution-Campaigns-for-Justice-for-Kingsley-Demetre-and-Smiley-raising-awareness-and-fighting-for-change">http://www.scribd.com/doc/59851489/Flyer-for-distribution-Campaigns-for-Justice-for-Kingsley-Demetre-and-Smiley-raising-awareness-and-fighting-for-change</a></strong></span></li>
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<strong><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Carnival Dates: </span></u><abbr class="dtend" title="2011-08-07T20:30:00+01:00"><span style="font-size: large;">LETS WORK IN UNITY AND HAVE A BLESSED AND PRODUCTIVE SUMMER!</span></abbr><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Derby Carnival: 16th and 17th July 2011. Sat 1pm - 6 pm Sunday till 9.30pm. Tel: 01332 371529 </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="profileName fn fsxl fwb"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>The Hobbit's Annual Reggae Beach Party:</strong></span></span><span class="profileName fn fsxl fwb"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Saturday 23rd July, <span class="dtstart">12:00pm</span> - </strong><span class="dtend"><span class="value-title" title="2011-07-24T03:00:00"></span><strong>Sunday at 3:00am </strong>£2 entrance by wristband only - available in advance and subject to availability on the door. 18+ only. </span></span></span><span class="profileName fn fsxl fwb"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="dtend"><strong>Event Page:</strong> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=220826851275206"><span style="color: red;"><strong>https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=220826851275206</strong></span></a></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Coventry Caribbean Festival: Saturday 30th July 2011 at the War Memorial Park, Kenilworth Road, Coventry, CV3 6PT Tel: 07506 754027 </strong></span><a href="http://coventrycaribbeanfestival.community.officelive.com/default.aspx"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>http://coventrycaribbeanfestival.community.officelive.com/default.aspx</strong></span></a><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Nottingham Riverside Festival: Friday 5 - Sunday 7 August on the </strong></span><a href="http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=9082" title="Victoria Embankment"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>Victoria Embankment</strong></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>. </strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">To be part of the JUSTICE CREW for Nottingham Riverside Festival please contact Talia at <a href="mailto:taliabennett@rocketmail.com"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>taliabennett@rocketmail.com</strong></span></a> or Lorraine at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LyricalLadyB"><span style="color: red;">https://www.facebook.com/LyricalLadyB</span></a></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Cardiff Mas Carnival: Saturday August 6th 2011. Tel: 029 2038 2094 </strong></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150923394971447&pending"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150923394971447&pending</strong></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Leicester Caribbean Carnival: 6th August 2011 . 12:30pm - 8pm Tel: 0116 273 6649 </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>To be part of the JUSTICE CREW for Leicester please contact: </strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Paulette Ennerver at</strong> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1090689302" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><strong>https://www.facebook.com/profi<wbr>le.php?id=1090689302</strong></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> <strong>Email: <a href="mailto:paulette60@btinternet.com"><span style="color: red;">paulette60@btinternet.com</span></a> or </strong></span><strong>Rozz Brookes: </strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/rozz.brookes"><span style="color: red;"><strong>https://www.facebook.com/rozz.brookes</strong></span></a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span class="profileName fn fsxl fwb"><strong><span class="profileName fn fsxl fwb"><span style="font-size: medium;">BRIXTON SPLASH: Sunday, August 7 · <span class="dtstart"><span class="value-title" title="2011-08-07T12:00:00"></span>12:00pm</span> - <span class="dtend"><span class="value-title" title="2011-08-07T19:00:00"></span>7:00pm</span></span></span></strong></span><abbr class="dtend" title="2011-08-07T20:30:00+01:00"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">To be a part of the campaign JUSTICE CREW at Brixton Splash please contact: </span></strong></abbr><br />
<abbr class="dtend" title="2011-08-07T20:30:00+01:00"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Anjella</strong> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Aanjella" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><strong>https://www.facebook.com/A<wbr></wbr>anjella</strong></span></a></abbr></strong></span><br />
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<abbr class="dtend" title="2011-08-07T20:30:00+01:00"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Michael</strong> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/michael.shelt"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><strong>https://www.facebook.com/michael.shelt</strong></span></a></abbr><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Birmingham Carnival: <abbr class="dtend" title="2011-08-07T20:30:00+01:00">Sunday August 7th 2011. 1pm Handsworth Park Tel: 0121 303 3008.</abbr></strong></span><br />
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<abbr class="dtend" title="2011-08-07T20:30:00+01:00"><span class="profileName fn fsxl fwb"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Margate Carnival / Soul Weekend 2011: Saturday 6th August - Sunday 7th August </strong></span></span><a href="http://margatecarnival.co.uk/"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>http://margatecarnival.co.uk/</strong></span></a><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong> </strong></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=214031388617714#!/event.php?eid=214031388617714"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=214031388617714#!/event.php?eid=214031388617714</strong></span></a></abbr><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong> </strong></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img height="117" id="il_fi" src="http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/media/image/4/6/Caribbean-Carnival-news.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="233" /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Nottingham Caribbean Carnival: 13th and 14th August 2011. Forest Recreation Ground (Goose Fair Site) from 12 noon to 10pm on both days.</strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Manchester Carnival Saturday 13th - Sunday 14 August 2011.<br />
Tel: 079 8540 0384 </span><a href="http://www.manchestercarnival.co.uk/"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">http://www.manchestercarnival.co.uk/</span></a></strong><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Stoke on Trent Carnival: 14th August 2011 at Hanley Park. </strong><br />
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<strong>Notting Hill Carnival: Sunday 28th August to Monday 29th August </strong></span><a href="http://www.thenottinghillcarnival.com/"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>http://www.thenottinghillcarnival.com/</strong></span></a><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong> </strong></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/Notting.Hill.Carnival.London"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>https://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/Notting.Hill.Carnival.London</strong></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Leeds West Indian Carnival: Monday 29th August 2011 at 12.00 noon</strong> <strong><a href="http://www.leedscarnival.co.uk/"><span style="color: red;">http://www.leedscarnival.co.uk/</span></a></strong><br />
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<strong>C4J4SC fundraiser/awareness event, now scheduled for 3rd September; Live music from Jon Pecos (watch video below), Young Deacon, Kwayme & more. </strong></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span class="textexposedshow2"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the last ten years over 400 people have died in police custody, yet hardly any police officers are brought to account by the British Judicial system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now is the time to say NO MORE – WE DEMAND JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY. In the last 10 year over 400 people have died from in police custody that's one a week.kingsley</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <u>KINGSLEY BURRELL</u> 29 years of age died in extremely suspicious circumstances in Birmingham. It is reported that Kingsley called the police after he tried to talk to a group of young people who were intimidating him and his 5 year old son. He was arrested and detained under the mental Health Act and days later he was in intensive care and subsequently died. </span></b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/justice4kingsley"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">www.facebook.com/justice4kingsley</span></span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Twitter:<span style="color: #c00000;"> @March4Justice</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Email:<span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></b><a href="mailto:mhayles@btconnect.com"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">mhayles@btconnect.com</span></span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>or </span></b><a href="mailto:lee-jasper@live.com"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">lee-jasper@live.com</span></span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><u>DEMETRE FRASER AKA T.DOT</u> 21 years of age from London died after being visited by the West Midlands Police force on the 31st May 2011. The official version of events is that he committed suicide by jumping off an 11th floor balcony. That is heavily disputed and undermined by the fact that neighbours heard a violent struggle and evidence of such on the 11th and 8th floors. </span></b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Justice4Demetre"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">www.facebook.com/Justice4Demetre</span></span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Email:<span style="color: #c00000;"> </span></span></b><a href="mailto:lee-jasper@live.com"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">lee-jasper@live.com</span></span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><u>SMILEY CULTURE AKA DAVID EMANUEL </u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>died in police custody at his own home. Smiley was observed well and happy a short time before the time that police claim that, while in the kitchen, making a cup of tea, unsupervised, Smiley took a knife and stabbed himself in the heart! </span></b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Campaign4Justice4SmileyCulture"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">www.facebook.com/Campaign4Justice4SmileyCulture</span></span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Email:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><a href="mailto:justice4smiley@hotmail.co.uk"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">justice4smiley@hotmail.co.uk</span></span></b></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Twitter:<span style="color: #c00000;"> @Justice4SmileyC</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span class="textexposedshow2"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">OVER 400 PEOPLE HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN POLICE CUSTODY OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS. WE NEED YOU TO STAND WITH US TO MAKE A CHANGE. </span></b></span><span class="textexposedshow2"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-hide: none;"></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span class="textexposedshow2"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Many, many others have lost their lives in police custody – we say NO MORE. We need to work in unity and we need you standing beside us. Please sign the online petition for legislative reform which will be handed to the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street when completed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ACT NOW! </span></b></span><a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stopdeathsinpolicecustody/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stopdeathsinpolicecustody/</span></span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269831077055887692.post-15699283079817771162011-07-06T17:28:00.000-07:002011-07-06T17:28:00.970-07:00My March For Justice: by Linda Hughes<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Our alarm awoke us at 5.30a.m.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a beautiful day, sun was shining, birds were singing..... A perfect start to our day which promised to be very ‘different’ from our family’s usual Saturday!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Today we were going to travel 250 miles to the city of Birmingham. Not for a Trade Show or a Music Festival or a Carnival but to March for Justice, for Kingsley Burrell and all other families who have lost loved ones whilst they were in Police Custody or Care.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We set off at 6.30a.m & stopped for breakfast en-route, arriving around 11.30a.m in Birmingham. We parked up and caught a taxi to Abbey Road.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When we arrived at Abbey Road were shocked to see the amount of Police in attendance..... There were Police Bikes, Police Cars, and Police Riot Vans, even a Police Helicopter hovering above us and many Police Officers on foot. Their large and obvious presence was somewhat intimidating. However, I am happy to say lots of people were sitting in the sunshine very relaxed chatting to one another.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We were meeting up with a lady called Louise, her son and her friends who had travelled from London and Bournemouth to support the Burrell Family on their March. I had ‘chatted’ to Louise on Facebook on a few occasions but until today I had never met her. I liked her immediately and felt she was a kindred spirit!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We met up with other people we ‘knew’ through the Smiley Culture Campaign on Facebook. We talked to Merlin Emmanuel who is the nephew of Smiley Culture. Merlin is an amazing ambassador for Campaign for Justice for Smiley Culture. He is the embodiment of Truth and Justice. He has an obvious passion for a noble cause which he clearly believes in.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At 1 p.m we started to assemble and then we were off!! ...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whistles blowing.... our flags and banners waving..... Kingsley’s beautiful face looking at us from so many placards held high in people’s hands... hundreds of voices chanting loud and clear.... </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What do we want?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘JUSTICE!’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When do we want it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘NOW!’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It felt SO GOOD to be part of this amazing march for justice!!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mile after mile we marched ...it was a very warm summer’s day but thankfully there was some cloud cover.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We paused at the Mary Seacole House. Two minutes silence was held. A lady stood in front of me, silently weeping, tears streaming down her face. I offered her a tissue but all I really wanted to do was pull her into my arms and hold her. Her pain and her anger were immense. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We set off again, walking through main busy streets..... We stopped the traffic, people who were shopping stopped and stared, some came out of their shops to take a look at us.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We called out to people ‘Join us! Join us! And when some did, the marchers would give them a rousing cheer!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We passed an amazing Temple where Sikhs offered us juice.... which was a beautiful gesture of solidarity.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After almost three hours of marching we approached the West Midlands Police Head Quarters.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As we turned towards the Police HQ, the mood of the Police seemed to become more agitated. I saw Police Officers getting hold of peoples arms and not allowing them to walk where they wanted to. It is my opinion they wanted the Marchers to react to their rough handling. We were dignified and would not give the Police any satisfaction. WE looked out for one another and WE moved each other along.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Once we were outside the Police HQ, we stood in front of the Police Officers who were stood in front of us. Many had their arms folded; all had a defiant expression upon their face with not a flicker of compassion from any of them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Emotions ran high for approximately 5-10 minutes. People booed the Police. People shouted angrily ‘MURDERERS’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘JUSTICE’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At no point did any member of the West Midlands Police Force try to address the crowd with their concerns. Surely due to level of support and passion at this March the Police had a duty to engage with the community that they serve and are accountable to?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We were encouraged to move away from the Police line and gather around the sound system to listen to family members give heartrending accounts of how their beloved family member had died. Each account had one unmistakeable connection with the other; these families are STILL waiting for JUSTICE.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It is a crime against humanity. My heart goes out to each and every one of them. Until they get justice, my family and I will continue to Campaign and March.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Finally we said our goodbyes.... to the lovely Louise and her fantastic son Lil Ras, Julie, Darren, Merlin & Lee....so many great people who are all committed to making a real change.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It had been an amazing day! I was so proud of every single one of us who marched! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But why was there no coverage of the day’s events on any live T.V Station?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Human Race United, marching peacefully together for Justice does not make the news. However had there been any trouble, then it would have been emblazoned across every tabloid and shown on the hour every hour on all T.V Stations. How utterly disgraceful is that?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It is up to us to spread the word, talk to people, encourage our children to protest about the vile cruel injustice people have to endure.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We believe passionately in this Campaign and we will continue to March for Justice until those in power listen to us. If you read this and have never been on a March before, then I urge you to join us on the next one. There really is Strength in Unity!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It has been said before but it is so true....</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">United We Stand. Divided, We Fall.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Until the next March For Justice..... No Justice – No Peace</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One Love family!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269831077055887692.post-39749896375735575282011-07-06T14:37:00.000-07:002011-07-06T14:40:13.526-07:00My March for Justice: by Delia Eva Good Johnson<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 8.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Firstly I’d like to big up the family of Kingsley for their Strength, courage and determination to fight for justice, also the organizers and the speakers.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 8.0pt;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 8.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">I went up on the pre arranged coach from London and saw many faces from the march for Smiley Culture.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 8.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">The atmosphere when we arrived at the starting point in Handsworth was subdued. </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 8.0pt;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 8.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">I was so glad I was there to bear witness. As I watched people meeting and greeting each other as though they had met before, I thought to myself, this is something you don’t see often, but this was different: we were all there for the same reason.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 8.0pt;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 8.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">They even tried some kettling tactic but that didn’t work, Lee Jasper had us covered so to speak, I couldn't believe it when he told everyone to sit down: that showed them! We were controlling this march not them and we would not be intimidated. </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 8.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">By Delia Eva Good Johnson</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Photographs by Dee Constantine-Simms</span> </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269831077055887692.post-7649773493702972702011-07-06T08:55:00.001-07:002011-07-06T09:04:58.629-07:00What If... by Lorraine Bennett<h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3><div class="post-header"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8348211780795304774"><div></div><div><strong><span style="font-size: large;">What If....</span></strong></div><div></div><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRtC-uhJbb2zc2D2QjBmK_5vlin85w7GZIQ1_uxyytseQG2aDxr6nulltu4Mf2HfTYCO5Pd51ztKdLe6j7JeUBQuBZj_v1O4XARsmgGuh88e8AbB2y9APaMMbLa4BqhAMAA9rKAKnYQ_KY/s1600/for+lorraines+poem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRtC-uhJbb2zc2D2QjBmK_5vlin85w7GZIQ1_uxyytseQG2aDxr6nulltu4Mf2HfTYCO5Pd51ztKdLe6j7JeUBQuBZj_v1O4XARsmgGuh88e8AbB2y9APaMMbLa4BqhAMAA9rKAKnYQ_KY/s400/for+lorraines+poem.jpg" width="151" /></a></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">What if Rosa had stood when asked to give up her seat,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Hadn't fought her corner-had pandered to defeat?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">What if Dr Martin had chose not to share his dream</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">had listened to the negative & turned the other cheek</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">what if Nelson M hadn't been willing to fight</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">to give up his freedom for what he knew was right</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">What if we all ignored the pain in a mothers eyes</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">chose to believe the media ,to buy into the lies</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">What if your child was taken,slain behind closed doors</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">& when you asked for answers,your pleas were all ignored</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">What if your childs memory was tarnished for all to see</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">by the very ones who took him & they were left to walk free</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">What if we all stood by & refused to march or fight</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">couldn't find the strength to stand by what we know is right</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">What if it were you? would you want me to march in your name?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Want me to search for answers-find out who's to blame</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">So when You ask me why I march-what can possibly be acheived</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">I don't ask what if or why..I answer-no justice,no peace!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">By Lorraine Bennett </span></div><div><br />
<strong>Copyright Lorraine Bennett 2011</strong></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269831077055887692.post-80586425983649575812011-07-06T07:44:00.000-07:002011-07-06T08:00:08.824-07:00My March For Justice – by Lil Ras aged 9. (As told to his Muma)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 54pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: top;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">We had to go to Victoria and meet Julie Harper from Bournemouth (it’s somewhere far where she lives). Then we went to Brixton to listen to Merlin and Jody and I saw Samantha Riggs and her brother and sister they are really nice and the people want 21 grand from them to find out how Sean died!!! Wicked people dem! Afterwards Neatly Lox gave me Muma, Julie, Darren Roach and me a lift home we got stuck in a big traffic jam and I fell asleep!! My big brother Da Jour gave Darren his room and Julie slept in shay shays bunk bed!! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 54pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: top;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Muma woke me up early and we got ready to go to Birmingham, Neatly Lox came to pick us up and we played tunes in the car all the way there! When we got there Muma thought she was going to wet herself so we had to find a toilet!!! There was lots of police when we came off the big road (motorway). then we found the start of the march and there was just Maxie Hayles and a man called Charlie but lots of police again they tried to smile with me and Muma but Muma took me away from them and we sorted out the stewards uniforms! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 54pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: top;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then a man who can’t walk much came in his car and said he was going to follow the march in his car I thought that was nice of him cos he coulda just stayed at home cos he is poorly! Then the coach from London came and we helped a lady put banners together I was pleased because Sean Riggs family came and I saw Merlin again! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 54pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: top;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">When we started marching Darren got a big banner with " united families against deaths in custody " on it and Darren Muma Julie neatly donna and Lindsay and me all carried it I had my picture of Sean Riggs and Julian Webster as well and I tried to hold them up as well but sometimes it got hard to hold them all so Muma helped me. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 54pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: top;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">When we were marching I saw a Rasta brother an said "come walk wid we" but he turned his back I think a lot of people are turning their back because they are scared! We stopped at Mary Seacole and had a silence for Kingsley it made me sad! And the policeman was staring at me so I cut my eye and stared back!!We got to a Sikh temple and the kind people gave us all a drink they were very kind and I know jah was smiling and so was Kingsley! Merlin asked me if I wanted something from the shop and I said no thank you in case they ask him for 21 grand for an inquest and he hasn’t got the pennies!! </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">When we got to the big police station Darren lead us to right outside and made us lift up the banner high!!! I had to stand on my tippy toes but it was too high so I just held the bottom of it and my picture of Sean Rigg!!! They played murderer and we jumped up and down singing it to I looked in the police man face and sung it loud think he was ashamed because he looked down!! Then all the people started shouting at the police and loads more came!!! Lee Jasper told us to move over the road I didn’t want to but Muma said we had to. Then we heard speeches from lots of people who had lost their family in police custody I cried a little bit when Marcia Riggs spoke and Demetres mum!!! Kingsley’s sister spoke really well and everybody cheered for her!! </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">There was a white lady and she had marched with us with her sons’ picture! Then the London people who came on the coach had to go and they booed the police as they got on the coach that made me laugh! One police man smiled at my mum but it wasn’t a nice smile and my Muma don’t play so she told him straight “don’t smile in my face and then come murder my son” I think she swore as well, that made me laugh as well!</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">There was a lady with a stick and Muma said the police hurt her I think she did good walking so far with us. I remember her from Smiley Culture’s march. Muma said bye to Linda Hughes and her people because they had a long way to go home as well. then we started walking back to the car but some people from Birmingham told us what bus to catch so half way there we got the bus the bus driver had let some people on for free because they had marched I thought that was kind !! </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">We went to a community hall and had food and drinks and the sound was playing it was nice but then it got late and Muma said we had to go home I was a bit sad! on Sunday Julie went home when my brother took her to the tube station cos Muma couldn’t take her because Neatly was coming for us to take us to High Wycombe for Paps Ullah Muma and Neatly nearly got lost but we found it and we met Ricky Bishops mum and Paps family . I handed out leaflets and Muma even gave one to a policeman! An old white man took one and said he was going to tell people about it at his club!! I met Paps daughters and I think they are very brave!!! We had a long trip home again and when I got home I lit a candle for Smiley, Kingsley Azelle Rodney, Paps and Demetre and Ricky Bishop. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Photos of the march by Dee Constantine-Simms. Photo of Pap's vigil by <span class="profileName fn ginormousProfileName fwb"><span style="color: black;">Saqib Deshmukh.</span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 54pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: top;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269831077055887692.post-8815074337338512542011-07-05T08:30:00.000-07:002011-07-05T08:32:38.603-07:00My March for Justice: by Talia Bennett<div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Talia Bennett</td></tr>
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dear Diary-March for justice for Kingsley Burrell</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">(<em>All times are approximate)</em></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><br />
</div><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;">Saturday 2nd July - 8:00am</span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">After attending the 'Who Polices The Police?' public meeting - which, I feel I should mention, was truly a night to remember: all the speakers (Merlin Emanuel, Samantha Riggs, Benjamin Zephaniah and Jody McIntyre) were truly worthy of the ardent applause - especially Jody; as it's <em>definitely </em>worth telling you all that he received a 30-second-long standing-ovation just before the end of his speech! His ability to bring sarcasm and quick wit to everything to engage, intrigue and entertain - somehow without retracting from the importance and seriousness of the subject, and somehow also managing to still clearly get his point across - does amaze me...</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">But anyway, back to the beginning.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">After attending the public meeting, my mum and I somehow managed to miss the coach to Birmingham. Which ended up with us staying in a hotel for the night - something we didn't expect, but was definitely fun - and then changing our tickets and catching another one in early morn'. Now, it's a beautiful sunny day; still slightly lethargic (why, I do not know - I slept like a sleep-deprived baby the night before), but I'm getting over it pretty quickly because all of a sudden the feelings I described in my other diary of the march are too potent to ignore... the simply demand my attention, right NOW. Not later, not in a moment - all I think about is how it's going to look, who am I going to see there, what kind of atmosphere will there be... again, the sense of being a part of something immensely, quite impossibly important sneaks up on my mind and gives me a little jolt of familiar disbelief that I - twelve-year-old-average-Talia - am attending an event that's actually going to be pretty amazing and momentous in the grand scheme of this situation. It's still unbelievable to think that I'm a part of this cause, and to feel the sense of strength and unison that radiates just from the <span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_188627871181535" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Official Campaign 4 Justice 4 Kingsley Burrell</a></u></span></span> - well, unless you're a part of it, it's hard to describe, and I'm a little apprehensive of how much more powerful it's going to be in real life.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><br />
</div><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;">" " - 12:00pm</span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">My mum and I have just arrived at the march site, and - please excuse this - but it is damn <em>hot</em>. The atmosphere is already electric, but as before at the Smiley Culture march, slightly laid-back, too - a lot of people lounging on the grass, chatting, tapping at phones, dotted about the grassy field-plane-thing just around the corner from the street Kingsley Burrell lived on in clumps of people. It's much hotter than it was on Saturday 16th April - so much<em> hotter</em> - and the only thing I can do at the moment is take a couple of placards, collapse onto the grass and try not to crumble into a little ball of ash, whilst looking around with a frown of disbelief: my face must be giving off 'Am I actually here?' signals at the moment, because that's sure what I'm <em>feeling</em> at the moment. I'm viewing everything kind of dreamily - as if I need certain things to remind me that this is actually happening and that <em>I</em>, average me, am here too.</span></div><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;"><img alt="" aria-busy="true" aria-describedby="fbPhotoTheaterCaption" class="spotlight" height="320" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/263418_10150301752099994_737169993_9327975_4426556_n.jpg" width="214" /></span></h2><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span> </h2><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;">" " - 1:00pm</span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">We've begun the march now, heading down a long, hot street with - and I'm both surprised and deeply pleased by the amount of people we've already managed to get looking out the windows of both cars and houses, and standing on the steps of houses to see exactly what this is all about. It's actually really good to see that the attention we managed to capture on the day of Smiley's march hasn't waned - and I feel a deep flush of pride for all those marching along with me today as we receive looks of open curiosity and admiration from the onlookers lining the streets, and an even deeper flush of pride when we all come to a standstill outside the Mary Seacole House on Lodge Road, descend into a two-minute silence and all raise our fists in the air. It's a brief period of time where nobody - not even the babies or children - talk or whisper or hardly breathe at all: even the dog I saw being carried by one of the campaigners has put a damper on its snuffling and snorts. It is a powerful moment, and an emotional one at that, and in it everything seems perfect: the sunshine, the charged silence, the fascinated stares of the onlookers we've drawn from their houses onto the streets... it's a moment that's impossible to forget, and one that I'll relive with pride forever.</span></div><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;"><img alt="" aria-busy="true" aria-describedby="fbPhotoTheaterCaption" class="spotlight" height="214" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/264533_10150301754304994_737169993_9328027_4919016_n.jpg" width="320" /></span></h2><div class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><img alt="" aria-busy="true" aria-describedby="fbPhotoTheaterCaption" class="spotlight" height="320" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/259876_229537737068808_206986355990613_751172_2769732_n.jpg" width="285" /></div><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span> </h2><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;">" " - 1:30pm</span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">We've moved on from the house now, heading steadily down the street towards the main road, and over the sound system Lee is alternating between chanting to the crowd and playing music with a bass that ultimately makes your chest shake. Although nobody seems to have the strength to dance in the face of the sun, we've certainly got the passion to shout and stomp our way through the streets - we've made enough noise to catch the attention of all those who were previously residing comfortably in their homes, or on the way to some place or other, and have enough policeman marching grim-faced and irritated beside us to arouse a decent amount of curiosity in the majority of them.</span></div><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;"><img alt="" aria-busy="true" aria-describedby="fbPhotoTheaterCaption" class="spotlight" height="214" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/261826_10150301850979994_737169993_9329989_622040_n.jpg" width="320" /></span></h2><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;">" " - 1:45pm</span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Fifteen minutes later, I realise that the amount of attention and people who have heard our shouts and pounding music and come out in their curious masses far exceeds the amount we received before - only because now there are too many of us to squeeze onto the road and therefore some are forced to walk on the pavements, which then catches people's eyes and draws questions about what exactly we're protesting about from the most curious of the onlookers. The scarlet and black placards we hold when gathered in masses make a noticeable status; we're holding up the cars and buses surrounding us, and the sheer volume and catchy rhythm of our chants and music exceed that of the noisy traffic.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"> <img alt="" aria-busy="true" aria-describedby="fbPhotoTheaterCaption" class="spotlight" height="214" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/264015_10150301851524994_737169993_9330000_8053938_n.jpg" width="320" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><br />
</div><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;">" " - 2:16pm</span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Further down the road, where the march slows down outside some corner shops, my mum points out one of the police officers talking to an onlooker - replying to the question of what exactly was going on, obviously with a big load of utterly rubbishy lies by the bewildered look on the woman's face. I quietly sneak towards them to try and catch a snippet of what he's saying, but as soon as I come close enough to hover he simply cuts the conversation short, glares pointedly at me and stomps off. Which, to be honest, really does make me laugh: what kind of coward whispers lies into somebody's ears, then gets scared by a ferocious-looking <em>twelve-year-old girl</em> coming to see what he is saying? If he was so brave, he wouldn't have cared whether I'd listened in or not, would he? </span></div><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;"><img alt="" aria-busy="true" aria-describedby="fbPhotoTheaterCaption" class="spotlight" height="214" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/269795_10150301852354994_737169993_9330017_5691332_n.jpg" width="320" /></span></h2><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span> </h2><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;">" " - 3:00pm</span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Now, the police are actually trying to physically stop any more people from joining the protest by keeping the van so close to the rear end of the march nobody can get close to it! Lee calls out to the police that we aren't going to be intimidated and tells us all to sit down on the road and pavement until they move it away - which actually works, and pretty quickly, too: an example that if you're unyielding to a bunch of petulant bullies' games, and show them that any kind of subduing tactics aren't going to work, you can actually force them to yield to your wishes - even if they are very blatantly doing it begrudgingly. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Later on I also notice one of the police officer's - a small, stout sweaty man who smiles nastily at me when I glare at him - carrying what I'm guessing is some sort of weapon: a small, thin black cylinder with a black strap going diagonally across his hand to keep it in place. He's keeping his hands clasped at the fingertips behind him, with the sleeves pulled right down over his fingers: and what I'm also noticing is that he is the <em>only </em>one doing it. I haven't seen one other officer on the whole march with one of these little cylinder things, and the way he walks and stares with a little smirk on his lips... if we're not careful round all these officers who are perfectly poised for a fight, then trouble's going to be coming our way very soon.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The temple we pass by is a large, beautiful building and the people inside display, as Lee quite perfectly put, 'solidarity and unity with the campaign' by offering everybody juice drinks - which, on such a dry, hot day is a welcomed relief.</span></div><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;"><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotoTheaterCaption" class="spotlight" height="214" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/262069_10150301846289994_737169993_9329880_8317593_n.jpg" width="320" /></span></h2><div class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><br />
</div><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;"><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotoTheaterCaption" class="spotlight" height="214" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/268890_10150301846449994_737169993_9329884_4624753_n.jpg" width="320" /></span></h2><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span> </h2><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;">" " - 3:55pm</span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Arrival at the West Midlands Police Headquarters begins calmly enough, despite my growing unease because of the officer's who walk so close to me, with a grim expression of barely masked contempt on their faces. We walk onto the wide street before it chanting, passionately but not angrily or in a threatening way. Nothing overly dramatic happens for the first three or four minutes - my mum and I go up onto the pavement outside the HQ to join in with the chanting, but no violence or threats yet -</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">And then I realise we're actually <em>surrounded</em>. I didn't realise it until I look around and see them blocking the paths that go off onto other streets in a curving line of officer's that most probably goes around the building opposite the Police HQ. It doesn't take long for the realization to spread throughout the entire progression that we're practically caged in, and by the time it does, we've already exploded into angry, alternating chants of <em>'Murderer! Murderer!'</em> and <em>'Justice!'</em> that are shouted into the officer's faces - very literally - with a pent-up ferocity that almost scares <em>me</em>: and I'm not the one on the receiving end of it, I'm the one <em>chanting</em> it, so I can't imagine how the row of silly little armed bullies are feeling now they're getting the amount of fury they quite rightly deserve.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><img alt="" aria-busy="true" aria-describedby="fbPhotoTheaterCaption" class="spotlight" height="214" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/264617_10150301860019994_737169993_9330173_573769_n.jpg" width="320" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><img alt="" aria-busy="true" aria-describedby="fbPhotoTheaterCaption" class="spotlight" height="214" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/260291_10150301860654994_737169993_9330187_1366344_n.jpg" width="320" /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><br />
</div><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;">" " - 4:45pm</span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The speeches have started now, and the speakers - including Kadesha Brown, Jodie Fraser (Demetre's mother), Merlin Emanuel, Mikey Powell's cousin, Brother Hughie and Marcia Riggs. All the speeches have the same effect on the members of the march progression: they animate and excite and keep the feeling of unity, passion and strength alive in everybody; they stir up the emotions into a vat of revitalized sentiments that leaves you breathless with exhilaration and excitement... apart from the speech of Brother Hughie, the Black Panther, who you all probably know of, whose speech doesn't exactly... well, tie in with the running theme of 'unity'. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span> </h2><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;">" " - 5:23pm</span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The speakers have stood down, the banners are being folded and packed away, those who travelled from London to Birmingham by 'coach are heading towards the vehicle to mill around it. The atmosphere seems to have loosened from 'tense, angry and ready-for-battle' down to 'tired, relaxed and ignorant of the ridiculous bullies around us' - the way it was after the Smiley Culture march. Nobody's ready to leave yet, or move away from the HQ, and I'm quite happy to sit and chat and smile pleasantly across at the petulant officers.</span></div><h2 class="yiv595073308western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Times New Roman;">" " - 7:15pm</span></h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Sitting on the coach now, with aching feet, eyes stinging from hayfever, body heavy with lethargy, I'm both exuberant and miserable - exuberant because of the memories I can hold with pride of marching along the streets, chanting, stamping, signature-collecting and having one of the best times I may have ever had; miserable because it's over so soon, and the next March is now two whole months away in September!</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><strong>By Talia Bennett</strong> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"> All photographs of the march by Dee Constantine-Simms (C) - many thanks. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269831077055887692.post-82527785988477611552011-06-18T08:58:00.000-07:002011-06-25T04:32:25.121-07:00ACTION PLAN: MARCH 4 TRUTH AND JUSTICE- JULY 2ND IN BIRMINGHAM<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><strong>ONLY ONE WEEK TODAY UNTIL THE MARCH!</strong> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">We need to let everybody across the UK know what is happening and why! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Deaths in custody can affect anyone’s family at any time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We demand justice for Kingsley Burrell from Birmingham, a healthy young father, who died in custody after calling the police for assistance, when he felt threatened whilst out with his small son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Justice for Kingsley is justice for all; we are working in unity with other campaigns and families affected by deaths in custody, including Campaign 4 Justice 4 Smiley Culture. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">We ask everyone that can possibly make it to the march to do so. However, if you are unable to make it, there are still lots of ways you can support the worthy aims of this campaign, which will not end when the march ends. We are in this for the long haul and ask that you stay with us and support the campaign until we achieve our aims.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Actions you can take NOW to support us are:</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Share all the links (listed below) on your personal pages and your websites. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Details of the March: <a href="http://justiceforkingsleyburrell.blogspot.com/2011/06/march-4-justice-july-2nd-in-birmingham.html"><strong><span style="color: red;">http://justiceforkingsleyburrell.blogspot.com/2011/06/march-4-justice-july-2nd-in-birmingham.html</span></strong></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Video Advert for the March: <a href="http://justiceforkingsleyburrell.blogspot.com/2011/06/marching-for-justice-for-kingsley.html"><strong><span style="color: red;">http://justiceforkingsleyburrell.blogspot.com/2011/06/marching-for-justice-for-kingsley.html</span></strong></a></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">FaceBook Event Page for the March: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=hp#!/event.php?eid=111612942255660"><strong><span style="color: red;">https://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=hp#!/event.php?eid=111612942255660</span></strong></a><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">5. <span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Official Campaign FaceBook Page: </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Kingsley"><strong><span style="color: red;">https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Kingsley</span></strong></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">HEARTFELT GRATITUDE <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FOR YOUR SUPPORT:</span></strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">JUSTICE FOR KINGSLEY, JUSTICE FOR ALL. </span></strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black;"><br />
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</tbody></table><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle"> </h2><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle">There is literally just under three weeks remaining until my late brother’s KINGSLEY BURRELL Truth and Justice March in Birmingham.</h2></div><div class="mbl notesBlogText clearfix"><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I want the support of the community near and far to support this campaign and turn out in solidarity; if this was America the Black white Asian and Hispanic nationalities will be joining hands from day one! To stop deaths in custody, so why is it that our nationality is too complacent with themselves? Remember slavery days are still apparent within this country and the laws of Great Britain are built around secrecy. However, way you put it the shackles may be removed but the system is still controlling us in every way possible through laws passed through parliament and regulations put in place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My family still cannot put my brother’s body to rest; it has been nearly three months since my brother died on the 30th March because the state decides to withhold my brother’s body for further investigation. Don’t you think he has suffered enough?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nevertheless, I must stay focused and with the grace of god the truth will be revealed no matter how long this journey may take perseverance and determination is the key to victory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember: NO JUSTICE NO PEACE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span><br />
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</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269831077055887692.post-37957318768320475472011-06-12T16:10:00.000-07:002011-06-12T16:18:56.648-07:00Update from The Burrell Brown family following public meeting<div><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle"> <img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotoTheaterCaption" class="spotlight" height="400" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/221837_205788936109860_198910790131008_653567_3877521_n.jpg" width="266" /></h2><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle"> </h2><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle">by <span style="color: #3b5998;">Kedisha Brown-Burrell</span> on Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 1:22pm</h2></div><div class="uiHeaderSubActions rfloat"></div><div class="mbl notesBlogText clearfix"><div><span style="font-size: large;">I want to say a big thank you to all those family and friends who attended the meeting on Friday evening at the Barford arms social club in preparation for my late brother, Kingsley Burrell, March for Truth and Justice on Saturday 2nd July.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday I began the leaflet distribution with the help of my good friend, god son followed by my two children. Areas covered yesterday includes: Hockley: Abbey Street (Door to door), Inner circle food shops Platinum spoon, Slawter, Domdines, and the barber shop next door, Russell’s Bakery, Bing Caribbean food shop. Handsworth: Giovani Hair dressers, Caribbean Kitchen, Record Shop off grove lane and finally Reggae City: down by Digbeth covered inside the event as well as all the cars out side. Tremendous response with how many people in the local community are fully aware of what happened to my brother and confirmed there support in attendance to the March.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">By <strong><span style="color: #3b5998;">Paulette Ennever</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span data-jsid="text">I did Northampton Carnival yesterday, I was surprised by the response I got to them a lot of the people I spoke to recognised the name and the circumstances and pledged support as well.I was especially happy to notice that at the end of the day I only saw one of the leaflets on the floor, unlike some others that had been handed out.</span></span><br />
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<span data-jsid="text"><span class="profileName fn fsxl fwb"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Next Meeting: </span></strong></span></span><br />
<span data-jsid="text"><span class="profileName fn fsxl fwb"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Family and Supporters meeting for March for Justice.</span></strong></span></span><br />
<span data-jsid="text"><span class="profileName fn fsxl fwb"><strong><span style="font-size: large;"></span></strong></span></span><span data-jsid="text"><span class="profileName fn fsxl fwb"><div class="description summary">To all the Brown-Burrell family, friends and supportors we are having a meeting on Friday to update on what has happened, what is happening now and what is going to happen in the future.<br />
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The meeting is happening on the 17th June 2011, starting at 7:30pm in the evening. We are going to be at the Barford centre in the SNOOKER ROOM.<br />
PLEASE TRY AND BE ON TIME!!!<br />
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Guys can you let other family/supporters know that aren't on Facebook. <br />
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We want Justice for Kingsley and the strong continued support of family and friends is needed. We can only do this if we help to spread the message of our fight against this injustice.<br />
THE TRUTH IS OUR RIGHT NOT A PRIVILAGE...<br />
UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL.<br />
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WE ARE NOT BEING CHARGED TO USE THE ROOM ALL WE ASK IS THAT YOU BUY AT LEAST ONE DRINK AT THE BAR. <br />
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Thank you see all on Friday. </div><div class="description summary"></div><div class="description summary"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Please confirm attendance at: </strong></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=128269423919601"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><strong>https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=128269423919601</strong></span></a></div><div class="description summary"></div><div class="description summary"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>FaceBook Page: </strong></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Kingsley"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><strong>https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Kingsley</strong></span></a></div><div class="description summary"></div><div class="description summary"></div><div class="description summary"><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotoTheaterCaption" class="spotlight" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/250540_216752585013990_206986355990613_709332_5866550_n.jpg" /></div></span></span><br />
<div></div><div>Friday, June 17 · <span class="dtstart"><span class="value-title" title="2011-06-17T19:30:00"></span>7:30pm</span> - <span class="dtend"><span class="value-title" title="2011-06-17T22:00:00"></span>10:00pm</span></div><div></div><div><span class="dtend"></span><br />
<div class="location vcard"><span class="fn org">Barford Centre, just off Dudley Road, Winson Green B16 0DY</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The tragic death of Kingsley Burrell a young black man a father, brother and son at the hands of West Midlands Police is profoundly resonant in some ways of the policing style of South African apartheid regime, the epitome of a racist police state.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The Boer police were notorious for the brutal way they killed innocent black South Africans in their droves. Under apartheid South Africa there was a formal process of police accountability and judicial inquiry into such deaths. Mired in racist practice, the police would usually provide an account stating that the detainee had " jumped out of a fifth storey window " or " fell down four flights of stairs". The judgement was always the same no one was ever held to account and most of those involved would be praised and promoted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Of course we have never had that level of racist oppression here in the UK. However when it comes to black deaths in custody there remains a whiff of apartheid like racism and injustice to the routine explanations of the black deaths in custody. We no longer hear of the police excuse that "he banged his head in the van "or the classic "he tripped and fell Sarge"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Things have moved and now we see police brutality explained in medical terms such as suggesting that the suspect "superhuman", "suffering from a cannabis psychosis" requiring the use of overwhelming and deadly force. My own personal favourite is the clinically cleaned "</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positional_asphyxia" jquery1307630710840="24" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;">positional asphyxia</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">" which is a non existent medical condition that means you died as a consequence of being violently restrained leaving you unable to breathe. Roughly translated that means you had five police officers kneeling on your back forcing the air out of you lungs to the point where were unable to breath and you died.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Kingsley's death on the 27th March shook Birmingham and London to its core. Communities were brutally reminded that, when it comes to any form of statutory detention, as black people we are still not safe and secure either as suspects, victims or patients. Kingsley had called the police whilst out with his son. He took refuge in a shop after he recognised a local gang that was stalking him. Knowing the violent reputation of this gang Kingsley did what we would all do in those circumstances he rang the police. As he waited and he saw what he believed to be the gang "tooling up "and rang other emergency services in the hope that someone anyone would arrive quickly and deter the gang.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">When the West Midlands Police arrived what then transpired was a travesty and a nightmare. Instead of assisting Kingsley and his son the Police forcibly arrested him and his child. He is alleged to have been beaten by the police in full view of his son an experience that will now leave that little boy with the kind of deep emotional and psychological scar that will last a life time. Along with his daughter, these children are now deprived of a loving father.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The Police then took Kingsley to a local mental health unit and three days later, after being transferred to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kingsley Burrell was dead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">What is known is that Kingsley had no history of mental illness. What is known is Kingsley was not a violent man. What is known is that British Police officers are predisposed as a result of deeply held racial prejudices to treat black men in a much more violent and aggressive manner than white Britons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">So far there have been two initial coroners' hearings to try and identify the cause of death and the circumstances surrounding his arrest and subsequent treatment. The West Midlands Police, the Crown Prosecution Service, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospital, Birmingham are all in the dock. Meanwhile the Police Complaints Commission conducts an independent investigation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The problem with these institutions that much like those of the apartheid era they do not enjoy the confidence of black and poor communities. Like them they can quote theoretical law and practice, point to a lack of evidence and arrive at similar conclusions. The Crown Prosecution Service has a blind spot for justice when the accused is a police officer and the victim is black.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">They are disbelieved in their ability to do anything other than cover their own backs. These institutions lack credibility among black and poor communities and this is informed by numerous examples of where compelling evidence exists (of criminality or culpability) they refuse to charge..</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">In this society at this time we need to maintain the maximum public pressure on these organisations ensuring opaque levels accountability , adherence to the rule of law and prevention of systemic abuses of power and corruption.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The current administration of criminal justice system is infected at its core with systemic institutional racism. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The excuses have become much more sophisticated and racism in the system in much more nuanced but the judicial outcomes are entirely consistent. No one is ever held to account and that is why we need a public inquiry into suspicious deaths in custody. The restoration of public confidence in the fair administration of justice and the demand for justice for the victim's families</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">requires fundamental judicial reform.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/Campaign4Justice4SmileyCulture" jquery1307630710840="25" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><strong>The Justice 4 Smiley Culture Campaign</strong></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">, who are supporting the Burrell family have set up </span><a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stopdeathsinpolicecustody/signatures" jquery1307630710840="26" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><strong>an e-petition</strong></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> that calls for a public inquiry into all deaths in custody and is attracting hundreds of signatures in support of the call for a public inquiry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">We must shine the bright light of public accountability on these institutions and that why the forthcoming national march highlighting suspicious deaths in custody and entitled the </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/Justice4Kingsley" jquery1307630710840="27" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><strong>March for Truth and Justice for Kingsley Burrell</strong></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span>due to take place on the 2nd July 2011 in Birmingham. It is vital if we are to ensure that Kingsley's children and wider family are afforded justice that we mobilise, promote and attend this march when such deeply troubling cases arise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">That why it is critically important that the wider public and campaigning groups keep the pressure on such institutions to maintain the highest standards. Maxi Hayles, head of Birmingham's Racial Attacks Monitoring Unit, said: "I call upon all people who believe in the principles of open and transparent justice to join with us and support this march. It is vital we find out what happened to our brother Kingsley and we will not rest until we find the truth."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Calling on the public to support the planned march he added, "We need your support to build this march and that requires you all to become cyber warriors for justice and take to the internet in your thousands to highlight this huge injustice and promote the march in support of the Burrell Brown family."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The plan is to assemble in Abbey Road Birmingham for 12 noon and then walk on past the Mary Seacole mental health unit in Winson Green, where Kingsley was taken. We then take the demonstration on to Bolton Road, Soho Road. Finally we head into the city centre to Lloyd House, the headquarters of West Midlands Police Service. There we will rally, chant and let Birmingham and the rest of the country know we are united in our quest for justice"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Lee Jasper a supporter of the campaign said: " First I would like to publicly thank the </span><a href="http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.php?show=19895" jquery1307630710840="28" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Voice Newspaper</strong></span></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> for its steadfast coverage of this tragic story at a time when most mainstream media are trying to sweep this issue under the carpet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Their coverage has been first class and reminds us of the campaigning history of the Voice in its early days. Second to overcome this media reluctance we need people use social networks to spread the story far and wide eventually we will force them to give this story the coverage it deserves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Finally we must promote the march ensuring that the Burrell family gets the support they deserve. This means we have to take the issue seriously and I would ask that every single day people dedicate some time to supporting this campaign. We are on the road to justice and the momentum must be increase. We must not predictably fade away once the heat of our emotion and outrage has gone. They expect us to run out of steam and we must now increase the pressure. No Justice No Peace !"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Speakers at the march will include campaigners and activists from around the country including </span><a href="http://4wardeveruk.org/2011/06/march-for-justice-in-birmingham/" jquery1307630710840="29" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><strong>Friends of Mikey Powell Campaign for Justice</strong></span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">fighting for justice for Powell who died in police custody in Birmingham more than six years ago. Merlin Emmanuel from the Smiley Culture Campaign, the Birmingham-based Julian Webster, who died under controversial circumstances outside the Pitcher and Piano nightclub and bar in Manchester in 2009 along with many others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">We must remove the stench of racism and injustice from the British system of justice. There can be no greater injustice than to call the Police for help and then being forcibly arrested and as a result of brutality end up dying in police custody.</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: medium;">Campaign for Justice for Kingsley Burrell: Contact: </span><a href="mailto:mhayles@btconnect.com"><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><strong>mhayles@btconnect.com</strong></span></a></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: medium;">FaceBook: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Kingsley"><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;"><strong>https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Kingsley</strong></span></a></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: medium;">Twitter: Follow @March4Justice </span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: medium;">BlogPage: </span><a href="http://justiceforkingsleyburrell.blogspot.com/"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;">http://justiceforkingsleyburrell.blogspot.com</span></strong></a></em><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Lee Jasper</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">First Published at OBV Operation Black Vote: The home of Black Politics <a href="http://www.obv.org.uk/"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>http://www.obv.org.uk</strong></span></a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269831077055887692.post-85842818282877286452011-06-08T18:11:00.000-07:002011-06-08T18:12:52.096-07:00MARCH 4 JUSTICE IN BIRMINGHAM: ADVERT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dybTfK4hYCNpPBDPOfUgfKMtzLn6c3qq6Y_KLW9vLDTUDa2geYwHQERehfo5GqqqBC8-s1Eq8jxa5CD2LT_Pw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Marching for justice for Kingsley Burrell and for all those that have died in police custody.<br />
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Please sign the petition for legislative reform regarding deaths in police custody: </strong></span><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stopdeathsinpolicecustody/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stopdeathsinpolicecustody/"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stopdeathsinpolicecustody/</strong></span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269831077055887692.post-88084335428138692392011-06-07T07:46:00.000-07:002011-06-25T15:28:27.751-07:00MARCH 4 JUSTICE: JULY 2ND IN BIRMINGHAM - DETAILS <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;"></span> <span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>MARCH FOR JUSTICE FOR KINGSLEY BURRELL</strong></span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><strong>and for all those that have lost their lives in police custody. </strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">We call on you to march with us in Birmingham</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"> One People with One Aim: <strong>JUSTICE FOR ALL</strong> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;"><strong> <span style="color: black;">Message from Kedisha: (Kingsley Burrell's sister)</span></strong></span></span></div> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Kedisha Brown-Burrell</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: small;"> <strong>(Kingsley's sister) addressing the crowds at the </strong></span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;">"I'm not just calling on ethnic minority but global majority to bridge the gap between institutionalised racism and custodial deaths.<br />
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As a community at large we need to join forces in support of my late brother Kingsley Burrell’s Campaign as one step forward in challenging current legislation. Out of many we are one strong diverse culture with strong religious beliefs. Therefore I take this opportunity to invite one and all to take part in the March for Justice on Saturday 2nd July 2011 to be held in Birmingham.<br />
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We owe it to ourselves to guide and protect our past present and future generations in breaking through the chains of mental and physical slavery and I urge you all to attend in order show your support in this ongoing fight against inequalities in Great Britain."</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><strong></strong></u></span> </em></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>DATE</strong></span>: Saturday July 2<sup>nd</sup> 2011</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">TIME: 12 noon</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>STARTING POINT</strong></span>: Abbey Street, Winson Green, Hockley, B18 5QS</span></span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>FINISHING POINT AND RALLY AT</strong></span>: West Midlands Police HQ, Lloyd House, Colmore Circus, Queensway, Birmingham, B4 6NQ</span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;"><strong><a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=52.47666,-1.903535&spn=0.024518,0.076818&z=14&iwloc=A&ved=0CA4QpQY&sa=X&ei=418GTvcZkYjKBI6Lif4L" id="pp-map-link" jsaction="app.loadVPageUrl"><img class="pp-linked-photo" height="218" src="http://mt0.google.com/vt/data=9hixY0RHmk2vgktNlD7TYcgrHrudICTZ224XsVNvt9WL6kALQQZg5QqBWlMzH2VEJclQt1S7bykCcmY8eLQTyzk_SQB5L_Lo2x7JpvxN2Rr3w8Ns-gSUOe9cu6U" width="298" /></a></strong></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Article from the Voice: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">‘March for Justice’ in Birmingham</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">By Poppy Brady</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">THOUSANDS of people are expected to join a 'campaign for justice' march through the streets of Birmingham next month in support of Kingsley Burrell who died in March following contact with police. </span><br />
<div class="articletext" style="margin: auto 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">It follows a similar march held in London on April 16 over the death of Smiley Culture, Burrell and others, and to demand an end to deaths in police custody. </span></div><div class="articletext" style="margin: auto 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Burrell's family said the father of two called West Midlands police for help, was admitted to a mental health unit, and then later transferred to the Queen Elizabeth hospital, where he was pronounced dead four days later on March 31. </span></div><div class="articletext" style="margin: auto 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">No explanation has yet been given as to how and why the 29-year-old died. His family says he had no history of mental health problems and was in good health. Yet family members said he arrived at hospital with physical injuries. </span></div><div class="articletext" style="margin: auto 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Another inquest hearing is due to take place tomorrow (June 3) at Birmingham Coroner’s Court. </span></div><div class="articletext" style="margin: auto 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">His sister Kedisha Brown-Burrell said: “As a family we are anxious for the coroner to release the body so we can say goodbye properly to Kingsley. The past two months have been extremely traumatic, especially for his two young children, but we have had tremendous support from so many people. </span></div><div class="articletext" style="margin: auto 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">“We are united and will stay united in order to get justice. We have set up a Kingsley Burrell <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Kingsley"><strong><span style="color: blue;">FaceBook page</span></strong></a> and had so much response.” </span></div><div class="articletext" style="margin: auto 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Brown-Burrell joined forces with the family of Smiley Culture last month in the peaceful march, which ended in a rally outside New Scotland Yard. </span></div><div class="articletext" style="margin: auto 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Birmingham’s march on Saturday, July 2, is planned to start in Abbey Road, Hockley, where Kingsley’s family used to live and are still well known. </span></div><div class="articletext" style="margin: auto 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Maxie Hayles, head of Birmingham’s Racial Attacks Monitoring Unit, said: “The plan is to assemble in Abbey Road from 12 noon, to march for 1pm, then walk on past the Seacole mental health unit in Winson Green, where Kingsley was taken, then on to Bolton Road, Soho Road and into the city centre to Lloyd House, the headquarters of West Midlands police. There we will rally, like we did outside New Scotland Yard.” </span></div><div class="articletext" style="margin: auto 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Speakers will include members of the Friends of Mikey Powell Campaign for Justice, set up in memory of Mikey Powell who died in police custody in Birmingham more than six years ago. There will also be family representing Birmingham-based Julian Webster, who died under controversial circumstances outside the Pitcher and Piano nightclub and bar in Manchester in 2009.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>(Published: 02 June 2011 at </strong><a href="http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.php?show=19895"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.php?show=19895</strong></span></span></a><span style="color: blue;"><strong>)</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"></span><strong><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">'Kingsley Burrell's heart showed no obvious abnormality,' says coroner</span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">THE HEART of tragic Kingsley Burrell who died following contact with police three months ago had "no obvious abnormality" according to a doctor's report, an inquest hearing heard in Birmingham. </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">But coroner Aidan Cotter said this could not rule out that the condition of the 29-year-old's heart played some role in his death at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on March 31st. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Speaking at the third inquest hearing, Mr Cotter warned Kingsley's family that a full inquest was still a very long time away as the scale of the investigation into the father-of-two’s death was immense. He said he was not able at this stage to tell them when Kingsley’s body could be released for burial. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Kingsley allegedly called West Midlands Police for help on March 27th in the Hockley area of Birmingham where he was out with his five-year-old son. He was admitted to a mental health unit despite his family saying he had no history of mental illness, and transferred three days later to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Mr Cotter said it was crucial to find out what Kingsley’s injuries were when he died and what caused his death so the proper facts could be revealed early. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">But he warned against people putting their opinions on the Internet as this could be in danger of prejudicing members of an inquest jury later on. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“The less you put on the Internet the better. What does appear there should be factually accurate, not people’s opinions,” he said. “This is why it is important the correct facts are brought out early so people do not start adding to the story, so we end up with something that is nowhere near the truth.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Mr Cotter urged anyone with information on Kingsley’s death to write to him directly, as he needed all the information he could gather to get the full picture of how he died. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“All too often at inquests people say ‘why wasn’t that mentioned?’ If they do not tell me, I cannot guess,” he added. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">But he said what he had so far had been very helpful, particularly a statement from Kingsley’s mother Janet Brown, a doctor’s report and a letter from his GP. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">“I still need more information,” he said. “I need to find out if a crime has been committed and if police officers have behaved themselves. If there are criminal proceedings they will be dealt with by the Crown Prosecution Service; if there are complaints about individual doctors or nurses that will be directed to the General Medical Council and if it’s a case of negligence it will be dealt with by the High Court.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Mr Cotter outlined the scale of the investigation by explaining that 80 witnesses had to be interviewed and CCTV footage had to be looked at in detail. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">At the hearing there were representatives from the Independent Police Complaints Commission, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospital, Birmingham. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Gill Harrad, of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust said detailed statements had been taken from everyone who had contact with Kingsley and 28 interviews had been set up. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">She added: “There is also an internal investigation taking place. We are liaising with University Hospital Birmingham and also the West Midlands Ambulance Service.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">The next inquest hearing is due to take place on Monday July 18th where more detailed interim reports are expected to be heard. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<b>(Published: 03 June 2011 at</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.php?show=19915"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.php?show=19915</span></a>)</span></b></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"></span> <span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>Campaign for Justice for Kingsley Burrell: </strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>OFFICIAL WEBSITES</strong></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span> <span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">FaceBook:</span> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Kingsley"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Kingsley</strong></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Kingsley#!/home.php?sk=group_188627871181535&ap=1"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>https://www.facebook.com/Justice4Kingsley#!/home.php?sk=group_188627871181535&ap=1</strong></span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/March4Justice"><strong><span style="color: blue;">https://twitter.com/March4Justice</span></strong></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Follow: @March4Justice</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">BlogSite: <a href="http://justiceforkingsleyburrell.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>http://justiceforkingsleyburrell.blogspot.com/</strong></span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269831077055887692.post-23866668506061302712011-06-02T18:57:00.000-07:002011-06-25T14:21:00.087-07:00Please design and display posters for the March 4 Justice on July 2nd in Birmingham.<div align="left"></div><b><span style="font-size: large;">Poster Details:</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">MARCH FOR JUSTICE </div><div style="text-align: center;">for KINGSLEY BURRELL </div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman;">and for all those that have died in suspicious circumstances in police custody. </span></span><br />
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Kingsley, a father of two, called West Midlands police for help, was admitted to a mental health unit, then later transferred to the Queen Elizabeth hospital, where he was pronounced dead four days later on March 31. He had no history of mental health issues, and was in previous good health yet he was admitted to hospital with physical injuries. The family, and all of us, demand answers. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">March with on July 2nd 2011</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">We march as one people with one aim: Justice!</span></span></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">MEETING IN ABBEY ROAD, BIRMINGHAM </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">12 noon </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">Marching to West Midlands Police HQ </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">where we will hold a rally</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman; font-size: large;">Speakers include members of the Friends of Mikey Powell Campaign for Mikey Powell (who died in police custody in Birmingham more than six years ago), and speakers from the Campaign for Justice for Smiley Culture: (the reggae singer who died in suspicious custody in March this year). There will also be family representing Birmingham-based Julian Webster, who died under controversial circumstances outside the Pitcher and Piano nightclub and bar in Manchester in 2009.</span></span><br />
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</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269831077055887692.post-29482275680727449462011-05-28T16:08:00.000-07:002011-05-28T16:08:59.842-07:00Petition for legislative reform in regard to deaths in police custody.<div class="widget Blog" id="Blog1"><div class="blog-posts hfeed"><!-- google_ad_section_start(name=default) --><div class="date-outer"><h2 class="date-header"><span><span style="color: #222222;"></span></span> </h2><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry"><a href="" name="5120535761599294312"></a><h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3><div class="post-header"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5120535761599294312"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><strong><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">TO SIGN THE PETITION PLEASE GO TO: </span></span></strong></span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><strong><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stopdeathsinpolicecustody/"><span style="color: red;">http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stopdeathsinpolicecustody/</span></a></span></strong></span></div></span></span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">"We believe that equitable dispensation justice in the UK must be done and be seen to be done if the general public are to enjoy high levels of trust and confidence in the fair administration of justice. Further we believe that all peoples regardless of race, gender, colour or creed should be considered equal citizens under the law. Suspicious deaths in custody and the abusive process of investigation and judication act as a drain on public confidence and cause deep scepticism and resentment in the fair administration of justice. The poor quality and speed of independent investigations conducted by the Independent Police Complaints Commission and an Inquest process that is not fit for purpose both critically fail to protect or support the rights of victims or their families. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Neither of these statutory processes empowers the victims’ families in their desperate search for the truth. Public confidence and respect for the rule of law are vital. We believe there is little if any confidence in the present legal process of investigation and inquest. Holding to legal account those institutions and individuals in whom the public entrust the care and safety of their loved ones is essential for maintaining public confidence in the judicial process. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Where suspicious deaths in custody do occur; transparency, openness and ensuring that the victims’ families are legally enabled to seek the truth and ensure those held responsible are held to account is of critical importance. We have no confidence in the current systems of investigation and inquest. We believe that the vast majority of the British public would support urgent and immediate legislative and policy reform that can restore public confidence in the criminal justice system."</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">We the undersigned demand that the Prime Minister:</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 38.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hold an independent public inquiry into all suspicious deaths in custody. We need an urgent inquiry into cases such as those of </span></span></strong></span><a href="http://justice4smileyculture.blogspot.com/2011/05/mysterious-death-of-smiley-culture.html"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>David Emanuel</strong></span></span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong> (aka Smiley Culture), </strong></span></span><a href="http://justiceforkingsleyburrell.blogspot.com/2011/05/from-voice-online-familys-anguish-over.html"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>Kingsley Burrell-Brown</strong></span></span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>, </strong></span></span><a href="http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/missing_man_s_body_found_in_canal_1_857927"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>Wayne Hamilton</strong></span></span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>, </strong></span></span><a href="http://www.iantomlinsonfamilycampaign.org.uk/"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>Ian Tomlinson</strong></span></span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>, </strong></span></span><a href="http://mikeypowell-campaign.org.uk/2010/03/how-the-police-killed-mikey-powell/"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>Mikey Powell</strong></span></span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23916055987&v=info"><span style="color: red;">Justice for Habib 'Paps' Ullah</span></a>, </strong></span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong> </strong></span></span></span><a href="http://www.seanriggjusticeandchange.com/"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>Sean Rigg</strong></span></span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong> and including the deaths of children in custody such as </strong></span></span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/jul/04/youthjustice.prisons"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>Gareth Myatt</strong></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 38.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Introduce reforms that result in the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> immediate and routine suspension of all police officers involved in cases of deaths in police custody including those of David Emanuel (aka Smiley Culture) and Kingsley Burrell-Brown.</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></span></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 38.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Ensure that IPCC fast track their investigation into the deaths of David Emanuel (aka Smiley Culture) and Kingsley Burrell-Brown and ensure that in future all investigations of deaths in custody are concluded in a timely and transparent manner.</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></span></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 38.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Reform and strengthen the powers and independence of the IPCC. For example ensuring that no member of the IPCC can have worked for the police or any other criminal justice agency where there is a clear an obvious conflict of interest. In addition: introduce independent community investigators that can be utilised in controversial cases where public confidence is an issue.</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></span></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 38.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Implement legislation so that any professional who has someone die whilst in their custody and where there are no independent witnesses present, must take a public lie detector test as part of the IPCC investigation</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></span></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 38.5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Petition created by Merlin Emanuel and Lee Jasper:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 38.5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Campaign4Justice4SmileyCulture"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>Campaign for Justice for Smiley Culture. </strong></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: red;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><span style="color: black;"><strong>Message from </strong></span></u><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1533590991"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Kedisha Brown-Burrell</strong></span></a> <strong>(Kingsley's sister)</strong> </span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm not just calling on ethnic minority but global majority to bridge the gap between institutionalised racism and custodial deaths.<br />
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As a community at large we need to join forces in support of my late brother Kingsley Burrell’s Campaign as one step forward in challenging current legislation. Out of many we are one strong diverse culture with strong religious beliefs. Therefore I take this opportunity to invite one and all to take part in the March for Justice on Saturday 2nd July 2011 to be held in Birmingham.<br />
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We owe it to ourselves to guide and protect our past present and future generations in breaking through the chains of mental and physical slavery and I urge you all to attend in order show your support in this ongoing fight against inequalities in Great Britain.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><u><strong></strong></u></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><strong>Saturday, July 2 · <span class="dtstart"><span class="value-title" title="2011-07-02T12:00:00"></span>12:00pm</span> - </strong></u></span><span class="dtend"><span class="value-title" title="2011-07-02T17:00:00"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><u><strong>5:00pm </strong></u></span></span><br />
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<div class="adr"></div></div></div><div class="description summary"></div><div class="description summary"><span style="font-size: large;">More details to follow but in the meantime can you send out invites to all your contacts.</span></div><div class="description summary"><span style="font-size: large;">We will shortly have flyers available and we need you to help us distribute them nationwide so that this march will be at least as big as the March 4 Justice in April. </span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" aria-busy="false" aria-describedby="fbPhotoTheaterCaption" class="spotlight" height="266" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/226289_210265728996009_206986355990613_666603_4052956_n.jpg" width="400" /></span><br />
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FOLLOWING A well-attended rally on April 16, another march is planned to demand justice over the deaths of Smiley Culture and Kingsley Burrell following contact with the police. <br />
<div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">Kingsley Burrell's sister, 27-year-old Kadisha Brown-Burrell from Birmingham said: "We are awaiting another coroner's court hearing on May 5 and hopefully they'll release my brother's body once and for all, as well as provide the true reason for his death. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">"We plan on marching in Birmingham on July 2 and are expecting more people than we had on the first march." </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">"I've had professionals contacting me from the NHS who want partake in the march. They said that they too are fed-up with institutional racism in the police force." </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">Kingsley Burrell’s family say that he was in good health before coming into contact with the West Midlands police on March 27 when he was detained under the Mental Health Act. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">She revealed that the family is struggling to come to terms with his death and are determined to get justice. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text">Leading black campaigner Lee Jasper and Maxie Hayles, chairman of the Birmingham Racial Attacks Monitoring Unit are helping to organise the march. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">Lee Jasper, the former race adviser to ex mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, told The Voice; “We will not rest until the Government agrees to a full and independent public inquiry into all suspicious deaths in custody.” </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">He added: “We want to keep pressure on the government in regards to the large number of death in custody.” </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">Independent Police Complaints Commissioner (IPCC) Mike Franklin said: "The IPCC investigation into the death of David Emanuel is progressing and we are committed to thoroughly examining all the available evidence to try to independently establish what happened. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">“We now have detailed accounts from all the officers who were at the house when Mr Emanuel died and medical professionals who treated him. We have commissioned various forensic examinations and scientific tests. We will continue to pursue all possible lines of enquiry. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">“Our objective is to get the facts and make them public but this will take time and, until we are in a position to make our findings known, I would ask people not to rush to judgment." </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text">An IPCC spokesman said that in relation to the Kingsley Burrell case, “the investigation is still ongoing”. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"><br />
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A FATHER of two from Birmingham has died following contact with police, two weeks after the death of reggae singer Smiley Culture. <br />
<div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">Kingsley Burrell Brown, 29, of Hockley, was picked up by West Midlands Police on March 27 and admitted into Mary Seacole mental institute, where his family say he was not allowed to speak to them. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">He was later transferred, on March 30, to a mental health facility at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text">When he arrived at Mary Seacole, Brown alleged he had been beaten up by the police. When he arrived at the second hospital he was in a critical condition. His family believe he was also beaten en route to the hospital. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">Brown was pronounced dead yesterday (March 31) afternoon. His family said the coroner contacted them this morning and has not been able to provide a reason for his death. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"><br />
</div><div class="article_text">Speaking exclusively to The Voice, Kingsley Brown’s sister Kadisha, 27, said: “My brother was in a gangland area and he called the police because he was with his five-year-old son and was worried for their safety. He had seen some men he believed were out to get him. </div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">“He was a lovely person, not the sort of person to be involved in trouble; he has just completed his security training course. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">“He called the police, but when they came they said he was paranoid. However, CCTV footage proves otherwise. He was taken to a mental hospital and en route he was beaten up by the police, and his son witnessed it. His son told us that the police beat his dad. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">“When I went to see him he had three massive bumps and a swelling to the head and the brain. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text">“The only reason they allowed us to see him is because we insisted. After this visit he was refused the right to see us and later taken to Queen Elizabeth hospital, where he was put on life support machine. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">She added: “We are taking it further and we are not letting this slide without a fight. My innocent brother’s life has been taken. He was not a criminal; he was a good father and a working man. He called the police for help but he died in their hands. “We want justice.” </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"><br />
</div><div class="article_text">His grief-stricken mother Janet Brown, 50, added: “I don’t know why the police took him there. He has never suffered with mental health issues. What they have done to my son, I don’t know. I’m studying criminology and I never expected this to happen to my one and only son. You have good police and bad police, the ones who have done this to my son are pure evil.” </div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">In response to Brown’s death, Maxie Hayles, chairman of the Birmingham Racial Attacks Monitoring Unit, said: “The West Midlands Police have got a lot of questions to answer and we want an open and transparent investigation by the IPCC into the death of this young man. We will leave no stone unturned until we get to the root of it, to see that justice is done.” </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">West Midlands Police said in a statement: ‘We can confirm that we are investigating the circumstances surrounding the hospitalisation of a man with a serious medical condition following dealings with the police. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">‘At approximately 1.30pm on Sunday, 27 March, officers were alerted – by the ambulance service – to reports of a man being threatened with a firearm. When officers attended the address on Icknield Port Road, they discovered a 29-year-old man in an agitated state. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">‘Initial enquiries indicated that no firearms offences had occurred. The man was detained under the Mental Health Act and taken to hospital. Three days later (Wednesday, 30 March), officers were called to a mental health facility in the Winson Green area of Birmingham, following reports of a man threatening staff with improvised weapons. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"><br />
</div><div class="article_text">‘The man was restrained and transferred to hospital. He was then placed under hospital care and became critically ill some time later. </div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">‘As is routine in such circumstances, the matter will be referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission for assessment, as the man had previously been dealt with by police.’ </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text">An IPCC spokesman later told The Voice in a statement: ‘The IPCC is to independently investigate contact between West Midlands Police and a 29-year-old man who died on Thursday, 31 March, 2011... </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">‘An independent investigation has begun. The IPCC is in the process of contacting the family to arrange meeting them to explain our role and the scope of our investigation.’ </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text">Sue Turner, chief executive of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust told The Voice in a statement: ‘There will be a full and thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 29-year-old man, who was detained under the Mental Health Act, on Wednesday (March 30). </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">‘The trust will assist and support any other inquiries arising from this tragic incident, and we are seeking relevant information from University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, West Midlands Ambulance Service, in conjunction with the police inquiry to ensure that we can gain a full, factual picture of what happened during this incident. </div><div class="article_text"></div><div class="article_text"> </div><div class="article_text">‘Clearly, this is a very unusual set of circumstances. Peter Lewis, our medical director, today met with the man’s family for the first of what will be regular meetings to work closely with the family and keep them informed as our investigation unfolds. ‘Our thoughts go out to the family at this difficult time.’ </div><div class="article_text"><br />
</div><div class="article_text"><strong>Published: 01 April 2011 at</strong> <a href="http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.php?show=19274"><span style="color: red;"><strong>http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.php?show=19274</strong></span></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0