Five years and one day ago, Andy Lopez was a 13-year-old boy who cracked jokes, loved food and embodied all that comes with being a middle school boy in Santa Rosa, the second child of an im... Read more
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), in partnership with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM), have announced the new ‘Seni Lewis Award’ in memory of Mr Lewis and to mark... Read more
The Metropolitan police’s use of force has risen sharply in the last year, with black people far more likely to be subjected to such tactics than anyone else, the Guardian can reveal. Read more
It has come 47 years too late, but finally, the wheels of justice have begun to turn in the Ahmed Timol case. It was this month 47 years ago that the Security Branch threw Ahmed Timol to his... Read more
Scotland’s chief prosecutor has decided not to charge any police officers over the death of Sheku Bayoh, a trainee gas engineer who died in custody three years ago. Read more
The family of Sheku Bayoh are said to be “extremely distressed” after a decision in the investigation into his death in custody was leaked to the press before they were told of the outcome. Read more
A Thames Valley police constable has received a written warning after he was found guilty of misconduct for failing to properly observe Leroy Junior Medford, 43, who died in custody last yea... Read more
The original inquest found the circumstances of Biko’s death to be ‘inconclusive’, although evidence pointed to him being murdered. He died from massive brain haemorrhages after being beaten... Read more
A Franklin County Grand Jury ruled a Deputy's use of deadly force when he shot a 16-year-old at the Franklin County Courthouse was "reasonable under the law" and did not indict him. Read more
Thirty years after the Hawke Labor government’s 1987–91 “Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody,” the state brutality and killing of indigenous people in Australia continues unab... Read more
