1 November 202024 February 2023 4WardEverUK

UFFC Rally 2020 : Memorial family event takes place online

UFFC 2020 Online Memorial Video Feature — Click image to watch the film

source: 4WardEverUK
published: 1 November 2020

In October 2020 the United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) annual protest & rally moved online with a powerful video tribute that remembered the victims and heard from some of the families affected.

UFFC extended their thanks to Ken Fero of Migrant Media for compiling the film. It will remain online permanently for viewing at any time.

The film includes moving and powerful statements from and short clips about several families including those of Christopher Alder, Kingsley Burrell, Gaia Pope, Justice for the 96, Darren Neville, Sheku Bayoh, Cherry Groce, Jack Susianta, Allan Marshall and many others.

27 June 202022 December 2022 4WardEverUK

After Ahmaud Arbery’s killing, Georgia Governor signs hate crimes legislation

source: NPR News
published: 26 June 2020

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Friday signed a hate crimes bill into law. The killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man shot dead while jogging in February, drew nationwide attention and energized efforts to pass this law.

Ahead of the signing on Friday, Kemp called House Bill 426 a “silver lining” amid difficult and stormy times.

“There are plenty of disagreements and division, but today we stand together as Republicans and Democrats, Black and white, male and female … to affirm a simple but powerful motto, Georgia is a state too great to hate,” Kemp said.

11 June 202022 December 2022 4WardEverUK

US must take ‘serious action’ to halt police killings says UN chief

source: UN News
published: 28 May 2020

The UN human rights chief on Thursday condemned the killing of 46-year-old George Floyd while in police custody in the city of Minneapolis, calling it the latest in “a long line of killings of unarmed African Americans by US police officers and members of the public”.

“I am dismayed to have to add George Floyd’s name to that of Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Michael Brown and many other unarmed African Americans who have died over the years at the hands of the police – as well as people such as Ahmaud Arbery and Trayvon Martin who were killed by armed members of the public”, said High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, in statement.