Anthony Grainger killing: ‘words will never be enough to save lives’

source: Socialist Worker
published: 20 May 2020

The government claims that lessons have been learned almost a year after an inquiry said police were to blame for the killing of Anthony Grainger. But the police responsible are still not facing trial.

A government response said “good progress” was being made on the recommendations of a public inquiry into Anthony’s death that ended in July last year.

The inquiry found that incompetent and misleading senior police were entirely to blame for the killing of Anthony by armed cops in 2012.

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Lessons learnt after fatal shooting of Anthony Grainger, report finds

source: The Bolton News
published: 19 May 2020

Lessons have been learned after a public inquiry found Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was to blame for a fatal shooting of a dad-of-two, according to a Government report.

GMP Chief Constable Ian Hopkins apologised to the family of Anthony Grainger, from Bolton, last year after an inquiry found that his death, in a car park in Culcheth, Warrington, in March 2012, exposed “serious deficiencies” by senior officers.

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‘It took 400 years to get to this point and will take a long time to make things right’

source: Cleveland19 News
published: 6 February 2020

“When those folks are on the sidelines when black and brown bodies are being killed in our midst, it leaves a community feeling devalued, like they don’t matter,” said licensed social worker, Habeebah Rasheed Grimes.

It’s February, Black history month and 19 News has brought you a series of special reports, on-air and online, examining complementary life and the connection to slavery.

We now focus on unresolved trauma in the black community and the relation to the vestiges of slavery. “The experience of trauma and adversity is not new to the human being, the human race. The world is a fairly hostile environment if you think about the conditions in which we survived,” Rasheed Grimes.