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Oscar Grant
Oscar Grant
1 January 2020
“We won’t rest until we have honoured Oscar Grant by winning justice for his family and ending police brutality in Oakland.” Those were the words of Dereca Blackmon.
Dereca was one of the principal organizers of a rally and march of nearly 1,000 people on 7th January 2009, to protest the killing of 22-year-old Oscar Grant early on New Year’s Day by police on an Oakland transit station platform.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/shootings/oscar-grant
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Adolph Grimes
Adolph Grimes
1 January 2020
Adolph Grimes, a 22 year-old New Orleans native, living in Houston since Katrina, was back visiting family for the New Years holiday.
In the early hours of January 1st an unmarked police vehicle filled with plain-clothes officers swooped in on Grimes as he was waiting for a relative in his parked car outside of his grandmother’s house.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/shootings/adolph-grimes
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Victoria Robinson
Victoria Robinson
2 January 2020
Victoria Robinson was found hanging in her prison cell at New Hall Prison on 2nd February 2005. Victoria was the fourth woman to die at the jail over the previous 12 months.
In the previous year 13 women died, apparently at their own hands, in jails in England and Wales; three of them at New Hall.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/prison/victoria-robinson
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Godfrey Moyo
Godfrey Moyo
3 January 2020
Godfrey Moyo, 25, was on remand at HMP Belmarsh, when in the early hours of 3rd January 2005 he suffered a series of violent and exhausting seizures after he was restrained for a lengthy period of time by prison officers.
He was rushed to hospital from his shared cell at Belmarsh Prison apparently suffering breathing problems, but pronounced dead on arrival.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/prison/godfrey-moyo
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Shaleem Tindle
Shaleem Tindle
3 January 2020
On 3 January 2018 Shaleem Tindle, aged 28, was engaged in a physical struggle with another man when he was fatally shot by Officer Joseph Mateu.
Graphic footage of the shooting captured on Mateu’s body-worn camera prompted public outrage when it revealed Tindle had been shot three times in the back while raising at least one of his hands.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/shootings/shaleem-tindle
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Ethan Saylor
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Dwayne Browne
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Colin Roach
Colin Roach
12 January 2020
Colin Roach, aged 21 years, died on 12 January 1983 after receiving a fatal gunshot wound while in the custody of Stoke Newington police station, London. He is alleged by the police to have ‘shot himself’ in the mouth.
Authorities alleged that he had committed suicide after entering the Stoke Newington Police Station. Many believed that there was reason to doubt this story and instead argued that Roach was murdered by police.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/shootings/colin-roach
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Michael Menson
Michael Menson
13 January 2020
A black musician died after being torched by three men, one of whom stole his personal stereo while he was in flames. Michael Menson, who had a history of mental illness, was racially abused and set alight in Edmonton, north London in January 1997.
He died on 13th, from complications and two heart attacks caused by 30% burns to his back.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/miscarraiges/michael-menson
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James Ashley
James Ashley
15 January 2020
The family of an unarmed man who was shot dead by police have renewed their call for a public inquiry in to his death.
Their demand came as the chief constable of Sussex Police made a personal apology for the killing of James Ashley by the force’s officers during a bungled drugs raid in 1998.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/shootings/james-ashley
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Sarah Campbell
Sarah Campbell
18 January 2020
Sarah Campbell, who had suffered from clinical depression, was jailed for manslaughter in January 2003, a day later she was dead.
The 18-year-old apparently died after taking an overdose of prescription drugs at Styal Prison in Cheshire. Her mother, Pauline, called for Prison Service changes until her own death in 2008.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/prison/sarah-campbell
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New Cross Fire
New Cross Fire
18 January 2020
The New Cross Fire was a devastating house fire which killed 13 young black people during a birthday party in New Cross, southeast London on Sunday January 18, 1981.
The black community were shocked by the indifference of the white population, and accused the London Metropolitan Police of covering up the cause, which they suspected was an arson attack motivated by racism.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/miscarraiges-2/the-new-cross-fire
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Jason McPherson
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Roger Sylvester
Roger Sylvester
18 January 2020
The family of Roger Sylvester have expressed their anger after an inquest verdict that he was unlawfully killed by police was overturned by a High Court judge.
Roger Sylvester, 30, from Tottenham, north London, died in January 1999 after being arrested by officers and taken to a psychiatric hospital. He later collapsed after being held down by a number of officers for 20 minutes in a padded room at the hospital.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/police-restraint-2/roger-sylvester
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Martin Luther King Day
Martin Luther King Day
20 January 2020
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.,[1] and sometimes referred to as MLK Day) is an American federal holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. It is observed on the third Monday of January each year.
Read more here : www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Day
Martin Luther King Jr. Biographical
artin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family’s long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Read more here >
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Jake Hardy
Jake Hardy
20 January 2020
17-year-old Jake died in hospital after he was found hanging in his cell at a young offender’s institution in Wigan.
A Prison Service spokeswoman said: “HMYOI Hindley prisoner Jake Hardy was found hanging in his cell at approximately 11.45pm on Friday 20th January 2012.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/prison/jake-hardy
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Karl Lewis
Karl Lewis
22 January 2020
Karl Lewis, an 18 year-old man, was found hanging in his cell at HM Young Offenders’
Institute Stoke Heath at approximately 1am on the morning of 22 January 2005.
Karl arrived at HMYOI Stoke Heath on 8 October the previous year. During the next three
months he would be placed on four separate self harm monitoring forms due to the risk of
suicide he posed.
www.inquest.gn.apc.org/pdf/2006/karl_lewis_inquest_opening_pr.pdf
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Pema Tsepak
Pema Tsepak
23 January 2020
A Tibetan youth detained for his role in a non-violent protest was beaten to death by police, Tibetan sources say.
Pema Tsepak, 24, a resident of Punda town in the Dzogang county of Tibet’s Chamdo prefecture, had been held in police custody for his role in a demonstration against Chinese rule in Tsawa Dzogang.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/cases-abroad/police-restraint/pema-tsepak
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Nuur Saeed
Nuur Saeed
24 January 2020
Nuur Saeed, aged 22, died on 24th January 2006 a fortnight after sustaining head injuries when he fell from a second-storey flat in Woolwich, London, after police had entered the property on a search warrant.
A police spokesperson has said that on 10th January Nuur was in the property when officers attended.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/police-restraint/nuur-saeed
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Jay Abatan
Jay Abatan
24 January 2020
Jay Abatan, 42, from Eastbourne , was attacked while waiting at a taxi rank outside the Ocean Rooms club in 1999. He was set upon by two white males following a row as he waited at a taxi rank with his brother Michael.
The father-of-two, who was celebrating promotion with Pricewaterhouse Coopers, hit his head on the pavement and lay in a coma for five days before his life support machine was turned off.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/adult-cases-uk/miscarraiges/jay-abatan
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Alex Kelly
Alex Kelly
24 January 2020
Alex,aged 15, was found unconscious in his cell at HMYOI Cookham Wood in Kent. Staff attempted to resuscitate him before he was taken to hospital where he died the following evening.
Alex, who was serving a 10-month sentence for burglary, had been identified as being at risk of suicide or self-harm, according to the Prison Service.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/prison/alex-kelly
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Adnan Rafiq
Adnan Rafiq
31 January 2020
22 year old Adnan Rafiq, an inmate from Moseley, Birmingham, died after he was fatally beaten. The young man died in HMP Herell in January 2013 after the assault by a fellow inmate in the prison near Redditch.
Adnan had suffered from multiple injuries such as skull fracture when he was punched kicked and had his head stepped on.
www.4wardeveruk.org/cases/youth-cases-uk/miscarriages-2/adnan-rafiq-2
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