Conservative Party leadership candidate and former Justice Minister Robert Jenrick called the Martyn Blake, the police killer of unarmed Chris Kaba a “Hero,” while the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said the bringing the prosecution in the first place was “crushing the spirit of good officers” and was making London less safe. (1) Perhaps London’s top cop believes that his mission to “bring more trust, less crime and high standards to the Met” includes extrajudicial killings and has been accomplished. (2) Although it not clear how this affects the status of his “Race Action Plan” launched last month with a “commitment to strengthening trust among Black Londoners.” (3)

The response of the establishment to Blake’s acquittal are indicative of an increasing divide of who does and doesn’t deserve justice as we recall the high profile sympathy for racist, terrorist thugs who rampaged against the police and public last summer who received more lenient sentences than peaceful protesters. (4)

Not surprisingly, such an authoritarian posture, from the Conservatives and now labour, includes attacks on the so-called fourth estate, the news media. The most recent high profile instances include white journalists who oppose Israel’s alleged genocide in Gaza. Asa Winstanley and Sarah Wilkinson whose homes have been raided by police, Kit Klarenberg, Richard Medhurst and Craig Murray, who were detained under anti-terror legislation at airports as they arrived back in the UK. Jewish activist Tony Greenstein was arrested at his home. (5)

However, in the spirit of the ‘special relationship’ it may only be a matter of time before attention is turned to Afrikan voices like the USA has done with African Stream and it’s fallacious prosecution of the Uhuru 3. (6)

The state continues to support police lying and killing with impunity vis-a-vis the Afrikan community with any apparent sanction rolled back, as we have seen most recently with the Bianca Williams/Ricardo Dos Santos and Chris Kaba cases. (7) They are aided in this enterprise by the mainstream white grievance media that relentlessly touts the necessity for “free speech” then rails against any affirmation of Afrikan life, including going after the Runnymede Trust for criticising the Blake verdict. (8) As journalist Afua Hirsch once said: “Even in our history month, black people are the repeated victims of cancel culture.” (9) Clearly there is a need to develop effective strategies against this.

(1) Martin Evans (21/10/24) Police ‘hero’ should not have been charged with Kaba shooting, say MPs . https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/21/police-hero-should-not-have-been-charged-with-kaba-shooting/

(2) Bill McLoughlin (07/10/22) Met chief Sir Mark Rowley announces new anti-corruption unit in bid to restore trust in police. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/sir-mark-rowley-anti-corruption-command-met-police-london-met-officer-whatsapp-b1031003.html

(3) Metropolitan Police Newsdesk (23/09/24) Met announces next steps to rebuild trust with Black Londoners. https://news.met.police.uk/pressreleases/met-announces-next-steps-to-rebuild-trust-with-black-londoners-3344287

(4) Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia (16/08/24) Who’s a Bigger Threat? ‘Eco-Terrorists’ or Thugs’? https://bylinetimes.com/2024/08/16/whos-a-bigger-threat-eco-terrorists-or-thugs/; Ben Chapman (06/08/24) ‘Get to the nub of the issue’: Lee Anderson tells Keir Starmer to ‘sit and talk’ to rioters instead of ‘banging them away.’’https://www.gbnews.com/news/lee-anderson-keir-starmer-uk-riots-protest

(5) Steve Walker (24/10/24) IHRC demands UN action against UK for persecution of pro-Gaza journalists and activists. https://skwawkbox.org/2024/10/24/ihrc-demands-un-action-against-uk-for-persecution-of-pro-gaza-journalists-and-activists/

(6) Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and The Rt Hon David Lammy MP (10/09/24) Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State Antony Blinken commit to make the special relationship closer than ever before. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-secretary-and-secretary-of-state-antony-blinken-commit-to-make-the-special-relationship-closer-than-ever-before; Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD (19/09/24) The Uhuru Three, African Stream, and the Black Scare/Red Scare. https://grassrootsthinking.com/2024/09/19/the-uhuru-three-african-stream-and-the-black-scare-red-scare/; Hands Off Uhuru! Hands Off Africa Defense Campaign (09/10/24) It’s not over! Fight back against the Uhuru 3 “conspiracy” verdict! Defeat the U.S. government’s use of “thought crimes” as an attack on the right to free speech! https://handsoffuhuru.org/its-not-over-fight-back-against-the-uhuru-3-conspiracy-verdict-defeat-the-u-s-governments-use-of-thought-crimes-as-an-attack-on-the-right-to-fr/; Kimbunga Media (02/10/24) AFRICAN STREAM Update with CEO – Ahmed Kaballo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orfCdHVFC2c&t=1312s

(7) Haroon Siddique and agency (04/10/24) Bianca Williams stop-and-search officers given jobs back at Met. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/04/bianca-williams-stop-and-search-officers-given-jobs-back-at-met

(8) Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia (25/10/24) How the Media ‘Justified’ the Shooting of Chris Kaba and then ‘Conducted a Merciless Autopsy’ on his Life. https://bylinetimes.com/2024/10/25/chris-kaba-shooting-metropolitan-police/; Genevieve Holl-Allen (24/10/24) Charity that claimed Chris Kaba a victim of ‘racist state violence’ faces review. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/24/runnymede-trust-chris-kaba-robert-jenrick/; Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (23/07/23) Katharine Birbalsingh’s open letter about Jess Phillips exposes the hypocrisy of free-speech warriors. https://inews.co.uk/opinion/katharine-birbalsingh-letter-jess-phillips-hypocrisy-free-speech-warriors-2450574

Afua Hirsch (29/10/21) Even in our history month, black people are the repeated victims of cancel culture. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/29/even-in-our-history-month-black-people-are-the-repeated-victims-of-cancel-culture

So tonight we ask the question:

Is the UK becoming a Police State?

1) Have the police “strengthened trust among Black Londoners”?

2) Why are journalists being arrested under anti-terror legislation?

3) Does true “free speech” exist in the UK?

4) How can we develop effective strategies against being “cancelled”?

Our Special Guest:

Bro. Ldr. Mbandaka: Resident guest who is Spiritual Leader of the Alkebu-Lan Revivalist Movement and an Afrikan-Centred Education Consultant. Bro. Ldr is a veteran activist of over 40 years standing. He is the visionary that brought forth the Mosiah Season in 1998 and prime mover behind what bacame the interim National Afrikans People’s Parliamnent. Bro. Ldr. is the author of Mosiah Daily Affirmations and Education: An Afrikan-Centred Approach To Excellence.

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