Around 200 of Mark’s family and friends marched on Saturday from Broad water Farm to protest outside the police station about mark’s death.
He had been shot twice on the head by police and killed on Thursday evening. Yet no body had been suspended.
There were whole family with children protesting. As they gathered on the steps of police station they were promised that a senior police officer would answer their questions. But typically this didn’t happen. When a young woman went to speak to the police, she was knocked to the ground.
Anger at the police exploded. It was entire right to rang against the police. Many hundreds of people took part. They reflected the local population – all ages, Black and White, Asian, as well as some Hassidic Jews.
BLAME:-Those, like David Lammy MP, who simply condemn those who took to the streets, should remember Tottenham’s history of racism and resistance.
We remember the killing of Cynthia Jarrett that started the Broad water Farm fight back against police harassment under the Sus laws in 1985. We remember the stitch-up that imprisoned Winston silcott for 18years. We remember the years that Roger Sylvester’s family went through, failing to get an answer as to why their son had been killed after eight policemen jumped on him outside his house in 1999.
These are the worst cases. But harassment is an everybody event. All the talk of the police “reconnecting” with the community means nothing.
If you want a simple for Tottenham it would be a white policeman searching a young black man for no reason.
All of this is made far, far worse by the drive from politicians, bosses and bankers to make working people, young people and the unemployed pay the economic crisis.
UPRISING:- Tottenham has the highest unemployment rate in London. With 54 people chasing everyday vacancy. Eight out of 13 youth centres are closing.
The uprising in Tottenham is part of the wider revolt across the world from the streets of Egypt to Spain and Greece and to South Africa.
The student revolt and the strikes we’ve seen in Britain recently are a welcome sign that fight back has begun here too. And Tottenham is part of that.
Riots can shake the system, but we need more-a revolutionary movement capable of tapping a winder power of resistance to counter the ruling class.
We need to use all our strength to unite the fight against racism, the Police, Rich, the Tories and capitalism.
That’s the way to get rid of this rotten government, to confront racism and to begin the battle for a better world.
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