31 October 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

15th Annual UFFC Demo October 2013

all credits: Larry Fedja
published: 28 October 2012

The 2013 annual demonstration took place on 26^th October in London and was attended by over 250 people. Those in attendance included relatives of Mark Duggan, Thomas Orchard, Sean Rigg, Roger Sylvester, Anthony Grainger, Joy Gardner, Olaseni Lewis and many more.

See this years 4WardEver gallery for the UFFC procession & rally >
(contributions from Ken Fero, Harmit Athwal and Peter Marshall)

The United Families and Friends Campaign delivered their annual letter to Downing Street. This annual letter, delivered to successive heads of government since UFFC’s inception in the late 1990’s, demands justice for those who have died in state custody in suspicious and controversial circumstances.

28 October 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Tippa Naphtali speaks out: Fury as ‘lethal’ Taser use on children rises

by: The Sunday Post
published: 27 October 2013

Tippa Naphtali speaks out to Sunday Post.

A furious row has broken out over the use of police stun guns on children. Official guidelines warn of potentially fatal consequences if youths are hit by the 50,000-volt Taser devices. But despite this, their use in confrontations with under-18s has rocketed by 1,000% over five years.

Figures show police used the weapons on just 29 occasions in 2007 but that shot up to 323 in 2011, an average of six times a week.

This included firing them outright and doing “drive stuns” in which the device is placed against a youth’s body and fired without causing incapacitation.

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15 October 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Troy Davis and family live on in new book

by: The Peoples Voice
published: 5th October 2013

Jen Marlowe’s newest book, I Am Troy Davis, was published right around the second anniversary of Davis’s September 2011 execution by the state of Georgia. Davis was killed by lethal injection despite considerable evidence suggesting that he was innocent.

Davis was convicted of the 1989 murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia. Years of appeals were unsuccessful despite significant doubts about his guilt.

Davis’s original trial was flawed, and most of the witnesses later recanted or contradicted their stories.