Injustice (2001) Britain's most horrific cover-up, deaths in police custody

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Injustice depicts how Brian Douglas, Joy Gardner, Shiji Lapite and Ibrahima Sey met violent deaths at the hands of London's Metropolitan police. It documents a five year period when families came together to fight for justice. Depite all their efforts some of the unpunished killers are still walking the streets, wearing in police uniforms.
This 2001 film from migrant media is about a series of deaths of ethnic minorities in police custody going unpunished at the Metropolitan police. Proof positive of racism and deep-rooted corruption at public expense. What does that level of misconduct in public office do to a person when it goes unpunished? The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) certainly take a major part of the blame for blocking prosecutions. Awesome film of the uncomfortable (to put it mildly) police officers at Shiji Lapite's inquest.
Injustice took seven years to produce. Since its launch in July 2001 the Police Federation (PF) have pulled out all the stops to censor the film. Individual police officers and the PF threatened legal action at cinemas and at the film makers who refused to stop screening the film and instead took it on a national tour showing it anywhere they could.
The audience took over one London cinema and projected the film when the cinema manager, under threat of the police, refused to.
Injustice has gained an international reputation and has been screened at over 50 film festivals around the world. Since November 2001 the British Film Institute (BFI) have been distributing the film around regional film theatres.
Injustice was nominated for an Index On Censorship Award and won Best Documentary at the BFM International Film Festival in 2002 as well as a National Social Justice Award and the award for Best Film on Human Rights at the One World Film Festival in 2003. Despite this success television broadcasters in the UK, including Channel Four and the BBC, have refused to broadcast the film.
Injustice has been screened in the European Parliament generating a debate by politicians there. The families of victims of police brutality are using the film as a powerful weapon to demand justice.
See also
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/68/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQqN4sD5XgE

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[poobear1ful]

Oh the naughty boys were shooting police in recent riots..............GOOD!!

[TYRONEDAVID]

If we are 'sick', then unlawful deaths in custody is one of the poisons that made us so.......