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The UK Is Not Innocent – A Reader on Police Violence and Racism in the UKLondon Black Lives Matter Peaceful Protest from Vauxhall to Westminster.

The UK Is Not Innocent – A Reader on Police Violence and Racism in the UK

Published 23rd June 2020

Black Lives Matter protests have spread across the UK in recent weeks. These protests stand in solidarity with struggles in the US but they are also a cry for change here in the UK, where racism shapes all spheres of life, including the criminal justice system.

All too often, police violence and racism in the UK has been understated or ignored by those who do not encounter it. In the wake of BLM protests, a series of insightful media articles have been written that speak to these critical issues. Below, we highlight a few of these blogs and news articles, focusing predominantly on policing, violence, and anti-black racism in Britain.*

These pieces remind us that in order to understand the unjust policing of lockdown, we need to understand the system as a whole.

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‘You’re Going to Look like a Bunch of Jerks’: Protest, Policing and Politics in the USAPolice officers standing guard towards George Floyd protestors in minneapolis riot

‘You’re Going to Look like a Bunch of Jerks’: Protest, Policing and Politics in the USA

Published 15th June 2020

The United States has been convulsed by protests and riots following the death in police custody of George Floyd. Outrage was sparked by video footage clearly showing a white police officer kneeling on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds whilst he lay prostrate, pleading for his life and for air. The horrific nature of the footage is such that – unlike in similar events before – even Fox News and President Trump voiced condemnation, and the officers in question were fired (though not initially charged). As protests continued and rioting spread, however, even this minimal level of official sympathy was replaced with hard-line rhetoric that echoes discredited understandings of crowds and how to police them (influenced and inflected here by a racialised history of policing in the USA). In what follows, we outline Trump’s call for draconian policing, explore the social science of protest policing, and consider alternative approaches.

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