10 April 201116 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Hundreds pledge support for family of Kingsley Burrell

originally by: Birmingham Mail
9th April 2011

Hundreds of people packed a city community centre to show their support for the family of a Birmingham father who died in police custody. The public meeting at the African Caribbean Millennium Centre in Dudley Road, Winson Green, was organised by the family of Kingsley Burrell, 29, who died just days after he was arrested and sectioned under the Mental Health Act.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched an investigation into his death. Kingsley’s sister Kadisha Brown-Burrell said her brother, who lived in Hockley, did not have mental health issues.

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28 March 201116 December 2022 4WardEverUK

More than 1,000 meet to demand answers over Smiley Culture’s death

originally by: Socialist Worker
25th March 2011

How did Smiley Culture die? Around 1,000 people demanded the answer to this at an angry meeting in Brixton, south London, last night, Thursday. Several hundred were unable to enter the packed room in Lambeth Town Hall. The vast majority of those who attended were local black people. The meeting was organised by the Campaign for Justice for Smiley Culture.

Reggae artist David Emmanuel, also known as Smiley Culture, died during a police raid on his house in Surrey on 15 March. Police claim he stabbed himself in the heart while alone in the kitchen. His family want a full public inquiry.

13 March 201116 December 2022 4WardEverUK

4th anniversary of Gilly Mundy’s death

compiled from various sources: 4WardEver UK
published: 13th March 2011

17 March 2011 will mark four years since the death of one of the stalwarts of the campaign movement against deaths in police custody and abuse by police and prison officers in the United Kingdom. Gilly saved three lives and restored the sight of two others when he donated his organs after his death in March 2007.

Friend and colleague Kevin Blowe said: “As a campaigner and activist, Gilly managed to cram so much into his own life and touch the lives of so many others that it is almost too painful to imagine what more he could have achieved.