The War On Police Accountability Over the years police have been negligent, brutal and manipulative. Society needs police to protect and serve which it does. Although in the UK, people have witnessed how police are not held accountable properly. For example only 1 officer has been charged for murder (in relation to police brutality). Death Of Vulnerable People After Police Contact There seems to be a serious problem with BAME people and those who suffer from mental health dying after in contact with police or dying in custody. Let’s do a history and take it back to Brixton 1985. Dorothy cherry Groce was shot by the police officer Lovelock in 1985 which triggered the Brixton riots her children were 8, 11, 14, 18 and 21 when they experience post-traumatic stress disorder ever since she was shot he was wounded and left paralysed resulting in her family caring for her at 25 years until she died in 2011 of kidney failure the pathologist directly linked the gunshot to the injury.
Race in Football Over the years we’ve witnessed racism in football and thought it is disappeared. Recently people have started to question its re-emergence, when racism just evolved to adapt to modernity. Racism seems to be very prominent in football. Raheem Sterling has been very vocal about his experience of how black footballers are treated and portrayed in media. Football is a microcosm of English society. The UK is a country that prides itself on being diverse and insist that it’s not racist, yet racism in football is so normalised to the point where there is rarely punishment for racist behaviour. On Sky Sports News in 2020 they still continue to discuss about racism in football when this issue was supposedly ‘in the past’. Black football players facing monkey chants and objects thrown at them like they are animals is dehumanizing, they shouldn’t have to either ; tolerate it or walk off the field , there should be a punitive approach to the disgusting behaviour of racist f