Royaume-Uni : la police a agi « légalement » en tuant Mark Duggan
▻http://www.la-croix.com/Actualite/Monde/Royaume-Uni-la-police-a-agi-legalement-en-tuant-Mark-Duggan-2014-01-09-108
La justice britannique a conclu mercredi que la police a agi « légalement » en tirant sur un homme dont la mort a déclenché de violentes émeutes en 2011, un jugement accueilli avec colère par les proches.
WTF, The Police ? Mark Duggan, Deaths In Custody & Cops Off Campus
▻http://thequietus.com/articles/14242-mark-duggan-cops-off-campus-met-police
Duggan’s death, to many minds, represents the very worst of the Metropolitan Police’s behaviour, and the inquest’s conclusions suggest that this behaviour, even when it involves the killing of an unarmed man, will not be punished through the justice system.
But, while the murder of an unarmed man is clearly the most grievous of the police’s actions, the Met continues to overstep the mark in more quotidian ways.
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2013 saw a total of 15 deaths in custody, and a further 12 following other contact with the police. These figures buck an otherwise downward trend over the course of the last decade. There have been more than 300 deaths in custody since 1998. To date, not a single police officer has been successfully prosecuted.
Students explicitly recognise that they are not the first to experience police violence, and nor do they suffer it most acutely. A statement from the Goldsmiths Solidarity Network, published in the wake of December’s demonstrations, says: “The actions of the police last week in Bloomsbury have attracted more media attention than the far more brutal violence committed against people of colour daily. It would be nothing short of a disgrace if we fail to point out that police violence is structural and a constant feature of life for hundreds of thousands of Londoners. It would be shameful if we fail to act in solidarity with others facing police violence.”