Death following arrest: Sean Rigg

[Gramsci]

editor Gramsci if you look at page one of this thread there are various post saying things like --- glad to see forty is still classified as a young man--- and ----could have had a heart condition----.
Apologies for my punctuation problem here - my Chromebook needs junking.

The point is a man has died and people are making sarcastic/satirical comments like this was Gilbert and Sullivan or Round the Horne.
I am with GarveyLives if this is what s/he is getting at.

Just looked back at page one. Pretty standard U75. Ending with detailed post by someone who knew the family.

Garvey continually baits this forum, never answers questions on any statement he makes and cut and pastes with no real comment.

I don't have time for it tbf. Garveys little digs are never explained or clarified. Classic case of wind up Internet baiting. I've better things to do in my like than to bother with it anymore.

 

[Gramsci]

Holding the Flame / Aswarm

The first in a series of Augmented Reality Statues inserted in Brixton and public spaces as interventions, offering an alternate possibility to the statues in our streets.

www.aswarm.com

Its a virtual statue. Unfortunately at moment only works on apple app. Says android will come later.

So idea is to go the outside the police station. Use camera to see the virtual statue.

I think its clever idea.

 

[CH1]

This Guardian article includes a video giving an account ifr the death of Olaseni Lewis in the Bethlem Hospital. Restraint by eight police officers.
Marcia Rigg appears at the beginning of the film

RIP SENI director: why I made a film about a graffitied artwork, race and mental health

Daisy Ifama discusses her documentary about why graffiti was emblazoned outside the Bethlem royal, a psychiatric hospital in south London

www.theguardian.com

 

[BillRiver]

This is worth a watch. Lowkey interviewing Marcia Rigg about the murder of her brother Sean and the aftermath. Very moving.

https://youtube.com/c/apoliticalorg

 

[GarveyLives]

Restrained to death ...

(Source: www.independent.co.uk)

Lest We Forget 21 August 2008​

 

[GarveyLives]

Fifteen years after the killing of Sean Rigg, the Independent Office for Police Conduct has now made an unprecedented unreserved apology for its failings and those of its predecessor, the Independent Police Complaints Commission:

Watchdog apologises for investigation delays 15 years on from Sean Rigg death

 

[nick h.]

Fifteen years after the killing of Sean Rigg, the Independent Office for Police Conduct has now made an unprecedented unreserved apology for its failings and those of its predecessor, the Independent Police Complaints Commission:

Watchdog apologises for investigation delays 15 years on from Sean Rigg death

Mind-boggling. And how much has changed since then? Has it got worse? For black men, contact with the police can easily escalate into a death sentence. Imagine living with that fear the whole time.

 

[Gramsci]

The letter sent to family is here:

IOPC letter of apology to Marcia Rigg | Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC)

www.policeconduct.gov.uk

The apology is for the IOPC settling a civil claim against it by some of the police officers involved. That the IOPC
made a settlement with these (ex) officers without telling the family

Who only found out about it due to it being on Police Federation website.

This is appalling on so many levels.

That the police involved decided to pursue the IOPC and that the IOPC did not tell family.

Also, I will have to look further, it looks like IOPC caved in and paid up

 

[Gramsci]

Here is Police Federation view

‘Breakdancer’ hired as part of investigation into officers

www.polfed.org

 

[Gramsci]

Poor cops . I feel so sorry for them

accused the IPCC, which has now been replaced by the IOPC (Independent Office for Police Conduct), of putting the five officers, who were eventually exonerated in March this year, through an unnecessary ordeal resulting in some of them suffering from depression and PTSD, which also affected their wives and children.

 

[nick h.]

No wonder the police don't want to attend mental health calls. They're beginning to understand that the mentally ill can be killed in all sorts of unpredictable ways. The sad irony is that fear of the police is one of the factors causing an epidemic of psychosis among young black men in South London. Not that you'd know about this epidemic. White journalists won't touch it with a bargepole.

 

[Gramsci]

From the Police Federation article:

PFEW is mounting a Time Limits campaign to try and end protracted drawn-out misconduct investigations, by appealing to cross-party MPs in a bid to secure regulation or legislative change.

PFEW- Police Federation of England and Wales.

In this country police are not allowed a union. The Police Federation is basically the Cops Union representing their interests.

Not surprisingly they see the real victims of Sean Riggs death as the cops involved.

That is their job to represent the interests of the cops.

Thing about the police is that any possible criticism is met with foot dragging that goes on for years. Whilst IOPC are not perfect the cops are hardly falling over themselves to help in expediting any investigation into their conduct.

The Police Federation are blaming those set up to independently oversee them. But the problem is that any time any officer is accused of misconduct the cops protect their own.

Its almost obscene that these (ex) cops have support of their de facto Union.

The only reason these cases go on is the perseverance of the families involved

But do the Cops Union see that?. I dont think so.

And now they want a time limit on investigations. I wonder why? So they can foot drag it out until the time limit. That is why.

God I loathe the police as an institution sometimes.