UK: Black Lives Matter movement 'needed in UK'
05 August 2016
"Activists have voiced hopes that a strong Black Lives Matter movement can be built in Britain following the growth of the campaign in the US.
The movement has grown over the past three years in protest at police killings of black people in America.
Organiser Joshua Virasami told the BBC black people should come together "to achieve justice and equality in Britain and all over the world"."
See:
Black Lives Matter movement 'needed in UK' (BBC News, link)
See also:
Black Lives Matter protest sparks Heathrow traffic chaos (The Guardian, link)
Some context:
Criminal justice system statistics (IRR, link):
"People from BAME [Black, Asian and minority ethnic] communities are over-represented at almost all stages of the criminal justice process, disproportionately targeted by the police, more likely to be imprisoned and more likely to be imprisoned for longer than white British people."