The
#EndPolicePursuits
campaign has come from families' demands for justice after having to endure the loss of sons, sisters, cousins from police pursuits.
Their loss is devastating. These are our demands.
We are appalled by the case of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, who after spending the night in custody at
#Cardiff
Bay police station, died the following day with new injuries to his body. Our condolences to his loved ones
#Justice4Mohamud
#PoliceBrutality
#BLM
This is astounding from GMP. The same force that tasers Black people ten times more than white people. You do not stand beside us; you stand against us.
A THREAD for Manchester protesters. We'll be available via Twitter & email all weekend: npolicemonitor
@gmail
.com.
Reach out, if you need us. Go prepared - mask, hand sanitiser, water, food, charged phone. Wear nondescript clothing. The police will use facial recognition tech.
With the new lockdown measures erratically put in place for the North the night before Eid, we are concerned that the over-policing of Muslim communities will inevitably follow.
Please keep us informed, and know we are here to support if needed.
After the shooting in Moss Side, Manchester last night, there is likely to be a heavy police presence. Please remember your rights, if you are Stopped & Search. You are obliged to comply but ask questions and for a receipt.
🔈 IMPORTANT INFO, please read
1/9) Greater Manchester Combined Authority are planning a hike in Council Tax in order to fund the introduction of police in schools. This is against the wishes of teachers, parents and students - find out more below
Our thoughts are with the loved ones of Simeon Francis who died in police custody. We will follow this case closely in light of existing data on disproportionate use of force. A black person is twice as likely to die in police custody than any other ethnicity as a result of force
Before you rush to impose the 'gang' narrative on Moss Side today, a reminder that the 'gang' narrative is deeply racialised.
In 2016, "BMEs were overrepresented on Manchester’s “gang database” (89%) yet only represented 23% of those who had committed serious offences."
Our thoughts, love & solidarity go out to Richard Okorogheye & his family. We are so tired of seeing communities of colour being systematically failed by the police & criminal justice system. People of colour deserve to feel valued & respected; the lack of support is a scandal
Along with several other groups - we have today written to
@gmpolice
and the PCC
@DeputyMayorofGM
to express our grave concern about a video currently circulating.
The video appears to shows GMP using a taser on a Black man, seemingly without warning or justification.
‘Safer schools officers’-Police officers-in schools in the North of England are using force against children as young as *10 years old.*
Black children are over *5 times* more likely to have force used against them by these police officers.
Get them out.
Following the horrifying story of police abuse of
#ChildQ
, you can learn more about harms caused by police in schools in this
#NoPoliceinSchools
video:
Solidarity w/
@HackneyCopWatch
& all organising against the harms of policing in schools and elsewhere
Hi
@Keir_Starmer
Just checking that you understand that defunding the police would mean more resources for the most vulnerable communities & investment in the social infrastructure, rather than police occupation?
Calling this ‘nonsense’ flies in the face of
@UKLabour
values 👎🏽
1/6) Our statement on the death of Mohamud Hassan
🔸We are deeply concerned by the tragic case of 24 year old Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, who was violently arrested at his home in Cardiff on Friday by South Wales police, and released without charge the following day...
🚨 PETITION JUST LAUNCHED 🚨
"Students need support and protection, not suspicion and strip searches."
Please share and sign this national petition calling for no police in schools, just launched.
💥MANCHESTER CALL TO ACTION💥
Join us tomorrow for a
#NoPoliceInSchools
demo in solidarity with Child Q and
@hackneycopwatch
. 5pm @ St. Peter’s Sq, Manchester
We are so pleased and truly grateful to
@ukblm
for providing us with essential funding that will help us continue in our fight against police racism and brutality. Thank you for your support! 🙏🏽 ✊🏽 ❤️
“These letters are really troubling for a range of reasons – perhaps most fundamentally because they exclude young people from attending a cultural celebration based on the racist construct of the gang.”
⚠️No Police in Schools Petition⚠️
Following the horrifying story of
#ChildQ
, & growing recognition of harm caused by police in schools, a NO POLICE IN SCHOOLS petition was launched last week.
It already has over 32,000 signatories.
Sign and share ✍️
We've been asked a lot over the last couple of years, and particularly the last few weeks, about how people can donate.
We've finally upgraded the red bucket we have at events and gone digital.
You can donate to support our work here:
Thank you!
We are appalled to learn of yet another death following police contact in Wales. Moyied Bashir who was suffering with mental health was handcuffed & put in leg restraints. This tragic news comes just a month after
#MohamudHassan
. We send our condolences.
We're issuing a statement, with
@KidsOfColourHQ
off the back of the awful news that a schools-based police officer has been charged with child sex offences.
It's addressed to
@AndyBurnhamGM
,
@greatermcr
, Head Teachers in the Greater Manchester area and anyone who supports...
Christopher Alder’s family are taking legal action against South Yorkshire Police and would like your support. If you have something to spare, please donate 👇 Love and solidarity Janet ❤️
Today was the annual
@UFFCampaign
march to Downing Street.
Today we came together and remembered loved ones who died at the hands of police violence.
We stood united with those in Palestine also suffering at the hands of state violence.
No justice, no peace.
GMP has published its long awaited Achieving Racial Equality Report. It acknowledges significant racial disproportionality across multiple aspects of policing.
On our way from Manchester to London to the United Families and Friends annual procession
@UFFCampaign
. NO JUSTICE NO PEACE. Love and solidarity to all of those who’ve lost loved ones at the hands of the police. ❤️✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿
🔊We oppose the
#PoliceCrackdownBill
which represents a dangerous threat to our civil liberties. The expansion of police powers will disproportionately impact communities of colour & silence legitimate dissent. Now more than ever we must campaign for police abolition
#KillTheBill
Our statement regarding the police precept tax increase, and the removal of community members from yesterday's Greater Manchester Police, Fire and Crime Panel
Full text available here:
LAUNCH: 'Decriminalise the Classroom: A Community Response to Police in Greater Manchester's Schools'.
We've worked with
@kidsofcolourhq
to gather community insight, and overwhelmingly GM says
#NoPoliceInSchools
Share this widely and support our calls
A 14 year old child has been hurt by a Schools Based Police Officer, leading to an investigation by the IOPC -Independent Office for Police Conduct.
Our thoughts are with him and his family, who must be so traumatised and hurt yet they continue to fight.
As Moss Side hits the headlines, its important to resist collective criminalisation of the amazing community and the structural violence imposed upon it
#MossSideShootings
#MossSideCarnival
"Disproportionality persists and no force can satisfactorily explain why” - Is this for real? 😂 The explanation isn’t really that difficult, shall we spell is out - R.A.C.I.S.M
Police are still unable to explain why their powers are disproportionately used on people from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, a watchdog has said
We are appalled that Cressida Dick continues to insist that the Met Police is no longer institutionally racist. This toxic myth obviously flies in the face of the facts (stop & search, police brutality, deaths in custody etc) & legitimises racist policing
'As a consequence of austerity, police in England and Wales have taken over important roles in welfare and social policy institutions.
'This renders those institutions more coercive, punitive and exclusionary.'
That's why we wants cops out of schools.
THREAD: Let's use the energy of
#manchesterprotests
to push for GM schools to be police free!
Police in schools detrimentally impact upon Black, Brown migrant & working-class students
Join us &
@KidsOfColourHQ
in opposing plans for more school-based police
#BlackLivesMatter
We stand in solidarity with the Floyd family and those in Minneapolis protesting against racist police brutality & murder
We will continue to fight against police violence & campaign for the abolition of the police ✊🏽
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
#BlackLivesMatter
#PoliceAbolition
Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
"Criminalisation, poverty & the hostile environment are roots of violence against sex workers. It’s time to end them all" Niki Adams
@ProstitutesColl
& Laura Connelly for
@RedPeppermag
The second edition of our Northern Police Monitoring Project magazine is coming very soon! This edition contains some really exciting pieces on a range of issues related to policing and injustice.
A WIN ON OUR JOURNEY!
We are so appreciative of everyone who has been involved in our collective action for
#NoPoliceInSchools
.
There is of course a journey ahead, but we are forcing shifts, and we will continue to.
Statement below, plain text here:
'The report by Louise Casey, commissioned by the Met after one of its officers abducted Sarah Everard... is one of the most damning'.
We've seen reports before and we already knew this.
It's our communities that will stop harm - fund us, not police.
📢 New Piece 📢
Police Off Campus
NPMP on the policing of students in Manchester.
Shame on the universities. Power to the students.
#occupyuom
#rentstrike
(1/7)
Anyone in or around London this weekend, please support this protest against police racism & violence, organised by
@tottenhamrights
,
@4FrontProject
,
@MonitoringGroup
@ukblm
Also sign this petition, 'it's time for the Met Police Commissioner to go!'
1) Express your opposition to Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s (GMCA) proposal to increase the Police Precept and show your support, instead, for non-policing oriented, community-based alternatives to public safety. Here’s why🧵…
There are concerns that police in schools in London, just like in Greater Manchester, are 'being used to discipline pupils'.
This is unacceptable, yet in some ways it's to be expected when you put police in our schools.
Get police OUT of our schools.
Alongside 16 other groups, we will be boycotting the government’s review of Prevent in protest at the appointment of William Shawcross. We cannot be complicit in a process that serves only to rubber stamp a fundamentally flawed strategy
No matter how 'friendly' they are to you, do NOT engage in conversation with the police, even with Protest/Police Liaison Officer (often dressed in light blue). They’re there to gather intelligence on you and others. They are not your friend.
Protest for Palestine. Today. Platt Fields Park, Rusholme. 12pm. With Palestinian music, theatre, and food. Stay safe - take masks - socially distance.
This is a really problematic & unacceptable approach from
@gmpolice
Criminalising & harassing people for not wanting to take leaflets based on an assumption that not engaging with police is suspicious. There are many (justified) reasons people don't want to engage with police.
GMP is adopting Project Servator in the City Centre this week, after a trial of the policing tactic, which has been running at Manchester Airport for the past year.
We’ve received reports of a Black man being harassed & arrested by approx 8 officers in Piccadilly Gardens at 16:40 today. We’re grateful to the member of public who monitored & filmed the encounter. We’ll continue to build up our own intelligence and hold the police to account.
At a time when public consciousness about racist policing is growing, news emerges of the Met extending their use of tech to racially profile. You couldn’t make it up. New methods, same old racist policing.
We oppose Boris Johnson’s introduction of new police powers to arrest and detain coronavirus victims. This chilling move undermines civil liberties & the intensification of militarised policing in such a way will impact the most disadvantaged in society
We are deeply concerned by the emergence of this video that seems to show police abusing their power and brutalising a non-white Muslim man.
We urge the
@IOPC_Help
@policeconduct
to respond and for the force to be identified and held accountable
With
@KidsOfColourHQ
, we have collected the views of Greater Manchester's community members in regards to police in schools. Overwhelmingly, responses were as we predicted:
#NoPoliceInSchools
.
Today we launch our campaign website. In one week, our report.
#GMPTransportunit
have been working today with
#GMTravelsafe
,
#TGFM
and
#Metrolink
partners in order to deter crime and anti-social behaviour, while providing reassurance to customers who use the public transport network 😃
Our statement in support of
@rentstrikeUoM
We, NPMP, express our solidarity and deep concern for the safety of student occupiers associated with the UoM Rent Strike movement as well as the wider student population and surrounding communities (1/4)
The
@UFFCampaign
march and rally is taking place on the 30th October, in memory of those killed by the police, in solidarity with their loved ones, and in protest against state violence.
We are running a coach from Manchester. Tickets available here:
If anyone is looking for ‘lockdown’ reading, give us a shout and we’ll post you a free copy of our first NPMP magazine published at the end of last year. Lots of important reflections on the importance of holding the police to account.
Just a few of the very normal things that have been happening in the Greater Manchester Police just recently...
1) A Channel 4 investigation recently showed that “dozens of inappropriate and disproportionate” arrests are being made every week.
THIS SATURDAY 31st MARCH
The Christopher Alder campaign for Justice is holding a memorial march in honour of the life of Christopher Alder who died 20yrs ago in police custody.
Queen Victoria Square, Hull - 1pm
#NoJusticeNoPeace
More info here:
One thousand young, black men have been removed from the racist gangs database used by police in London, after a review found they posed no or little risk of committing violence
We are distressed to learn of the death of another young person in our community following yet another pursuit by Greater Manchester Police (GMP).
Yesterday, a 15-year-old boy riding an e-bike was killed when he collided with an ambulance on Langworthy Road in Salford.
1/2
We were distressed to learn of the death of another young person in our community following yet another pursuit by Greater Manchester Police (GMP).
You can read our full statement here:
1/5
We are so proud to be a part of this project and to work with such amazing groups. Huge thanks to
@libertyhq
for coordinating this important work. Police and punishment don’t keep us safe. We need to continue to grow alternatives now.
🚀LAUNCHING TODAY🚀
HOLDING OUR OWN: a guide to non-policing solutions to serious youth violence
The start of a ground-breaking campaign collab to move away from police + punishment and give power + resources back to communities so our young people can thrive
#HoldingOurOwn
We are appalled by news of a young boy assaulted in his school by a police officer. Our solidarity goes to him and his family.
They are a risk to all young people, particularly those most harmed by racist, classist and ableist state violence. Read more:
"But the jury did not see what we see in each boy."
"They did not see how Ade leads with kindness each day, how his little brother curls up in his lap for a cuddle, or how he watches movies in bed with his mum."
We’ve just seen that the amazing English Collective of Prostitutes
@ProstitutesColl
has followed us. NPMP stands in solidarity with the sex workers rights movement & advocates for the decriminalisation of sex work. Support their work by donating here:
Manchester Council quietly scraps Mayor's plan for police officers in schools - yep, following sustained pressure from a community led campaign of young people, teachers, parents and others coming together! There’s work still to be done, so check out:
Manchester decides it will go a different way than police officers based in schools, something the Mayor Andy Burnham and Deputy Bev Hughes have been keen on. No comment from his office on this. H/T to
@mcrmeteor
for original scoop
We are back, but where are all our followers?
@Twitter
, wagwan?! suspend our account for 5 weeks - at a time of unprecedented police power - and now we've got no followers?
Shout out
@npolicemonitor1
for stepping up, stepping in
No Police in Schools event
28th of October, online
Organisers from the
#NoPoliceinSchools
campaign and
@KidsOfColourHQ
will talk through our 'Decriminalise the Classroom' report and the wider
#NoPoliceInSchools
campaign.
Join us. Free tickets here:
Finally, if you’re not attending the protests due to social distancing, don’t feel guilty. There’s lots of ways to engage in anti-racist activism.
Come along to our (virtual) open meeting on 16 June to learn more about how you can get involved in NPMP
**FORMER BLACK PANTHER, PROF KATHLEEN CLEAVER TO SPEAK IN MANCHESTER**
Kathleen Cleaver w/
@MaliaBouattia
@Akemyah
@Peninah69
will discuss 'Resisting policing and racial injustice'. Tickets are already going fast!
.
@NEU_Manchester
are the first district in the country to pass a motion supporting the
#nopoliceinschools
campaign. Contrary to what the Mayor & Deputy say, teachers in Manchester do not want to criminalise the classroom.
Please book a spot on the coach from Manchester to this year's
@UFFCampaign
march and rally, 28th October in London, against deaths in or following custody.
Places are FREE but those who are able can make a donation to help us to run the coach yearly.
We once again find ourselves appalled & deeply saddened by the disturbing footage of a Black man in distress being excessively tasered by racist police. This was another preventable death.
#EndTaserTorture
#AbolishTaser
Read more on the misuse of taser:
Great turn out at tonight’s demo in memory of Ronaldo Johnson. We were silent to symbolise the wall of silence the family has faced from GMP and the IOPC since Ron was killed a year ago.
Our open letter to
@gmpolice
has been signed by over 50 people so far, including citizens of Grtr Manchester, leading charities, & anti-racist orgs.
We call attention to problems with 'Project Servator' &
@gmpolice
unwillingness to respond to concerns
“How is racism ever going to be tackled in police forces if the police watchdog classify it as a ‘respect and courtesy’ issue rather than an ‘honesty and integrity’ issue. Neither the police or the IOPC seem to take discrimination issues seriously.”