Reverand Jesse Jackson shows UK solidarity

American civil rights campaigner Reverend Jesse Jackson addressed a press conference in east London on Thursday 15th December 2011, to publicly give his backing to the growing number of calls for an independent judicial inquiry into the current handling of deaths in police custody.

A number of agencies including Operation Hope and Recovery, The United Friends and Families Campaign, Inquest, Black Mental Health UK, Operation Black Vote and the Campaign 4 Justice have come together to stand with the families who have been affected by these tragedies.

The meeting highlighted the widespread distrust that the recent spate of deaths of Mark Duggan, Kingsley Burrell Brown, Demetre Fraser and Jacob Michael, at the hands of the police has caused. It will also focused on the urgent need for the establishment of an independent judicial public inquiry.

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[jetblakink]

@kidmover, I hear you, but we could learn a lot from the Occupy movement. From their level of engagement, from their focus and determination etc. Too many of us think that we can have freedom, justice and equality by offering a pitiful ONE HOURS worth of our time for our OWN cause of so-called liberation per week. This in itself is madness.

[kidmover]

i see to many white people fam