In 2011 Mark Duggan was killed by armed police in London, sparking a riot that spiralled into a week of the worst civil unrest in modern British history.
A first in the police department
150 year history: 3 Counts of murder & manslaughter for 8 Minutes, 46 Seconds of forcefully kneeling into the neck of George Floyd until he heard his last breath.
#TheHardStop , dir @georgebamponsah, cast Marcus Knox Hook, @kurtis_henville and writer-producer Dionne Walker (@diverseworld)would like send condolences 💐 to the family of Richard Okorogheye
The Race and Disparities report acknowledges:
‘Past injustices still loom large in perceptions of the police for some ethnic minority Britons, especially Black [and] Caribbean’
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Don't miss this tonight fam! It's gonna be 🔥🔥🔥
Directed by @georgebamponsah who made BAFTA nommed @TheHardStop, Exec Produced by Steve McQueen (Director: 'Small Axe') & James Rogan (Director: 'Stephen: the Murder that Changed a Nation')
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Can you imagine the families of those who have died during police arrest or in custody not being allowed to demonstrate outside the police station?
#Investigate#PoliceCrackdownBill
The fight against the #PoliceCrackdownBill and this Government’s authoritarianism is only just beginning.
Let's keep organising to defend & extend the democratic rights that make progress possible.
Nims Obunge is an independent candidate in the London Mayoral race.
In #TheHardStop he is a unifying voice, we see him during the campaign
and at local community meetings putting tough questions to the police. Team @TheHardStop wish him well.
BBC has commissioned two new documentaries: Black Power (w/t), directed by BAFTA-nominated George Amponsah (The Hard Stop), and Subnormal, directed by Lyttanya Shannon — with both films originating from filmmaker Steve McQueen https://t.co/B3adbAWrET