The family of Alton Sterling, shot and killed by a white police officer outside a convenience store has reached a $4.5 million settlement with the city, nearly five years after his death, the family’s lawyers said.
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Daniel Morgan inquiry: Murky links between police and media
The inquiry revealed no shortage of disturbing material about key elements of the Met police, the Murdoch press stable, in particular the cut-throat News of the World, and some of its fiercest rivals.
Public inquiry opens into Met police killing of unarmed Jermaine Baker
A public inquiry into the death of an unarmed man shot by a Metropolitan police marksman during a foiled prison break has heard that a bug in the getaway car picked up the occupants saying they did not have a real gun.
Survivors mark four year anniversary of Grenfell tower fire tragedy
Grenfell survivors and campaigners have said it was a “shocking scandal” that four years after the disaster thousands of people are still living in buildings covered in flammable cladding.
Deaths in custody: Australian mother takes fight to the UN
Australian mother Leetona Dungay and a team of lawyers will take a claim over her son’s death in custody to the United Nations. David Dungay Jr died after being restrained by five prison officers in 2015.
50 U.S. Black women killed by police since 2015; not one officer convicted
From February 2015 to March 2021, police killed at least 50 Black women across the country and not a single officer involved in those deaths has been convicted, according to a new Insider report.
Institutional racism and police brutality: ICA timely show after 15-month hiatus
After closing its doors for more than a year, the Institute of Contemporary Arts reopens with an exhibition focused on the “various forms of state violence and institutional racism targeted at Britain’s Black communities”.
I know how George Floyd’s family feels – racist officers watched my brother die’
A year on from the murder of George Floyd, Janet Alder explains the pain of her brother’s death. Christopher Alder died in Hull police station in 1998 with officers standing around making monkey noises.
