sounding new calls for justice

originally by: Ligali
16th April 2011

Over six hundred people marched across London in search of answers to the death of reggae artist David Emmanuel and other death in custody victims. The protest which was organised by the Campaign for Justice for Smiley Culture alongside other community campaigners such as Minkah Adofo, of the United Friends and Family Campaign (UFFC) campaign against deaths in police custody and Maxie Hayles, of the Birmingham Racial Attacks Monitoring Unit (BRAMU) followed Smiley’s Friday funeral.

The peaceful protest led by a music playing float was a national effort attracting supporters from all across the UK. In particular the families of Sean Riggs, Julian Webster, and Wayne Hamilton as well as that of Kingsley Burrell Brown, another African who recently died after contact with British police officers united with the Emmanuel family and participated in the rally that travelled past the Houses of Parliament at Westminster and ended at the Metropolitan Police headquarters at Scotland Yard.

David “Smiley Culture” Emmanuel, died of a single stab wound through the heart after several Police officers searched his home on 15 March 2011. His family had been told he stabbed himself while making a cup of tea.

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