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The family of Jermaine Baker, who was shot dead by counter-terrorism specialist firearms officer W80 in 2015, have accused Scotland Yard of evading accountability after a case against the marksman was thrown out www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Case dropped against Met police officer who shot unarmed man
Officer, known as W80, shot Jermaine Baker during a foiled prison break in 2015
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
expect and challenge this leading to coroners and inquests to follow suit bsky.app/profile/hjac...
A government plan to give anonymity to firearms officers in England and Wales facing criminal charges would “ride roughshod over the principles of open justice,” damaging media ability to report on potential criminal activity, warn senior media figures www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Anonymity for firearms officers will harm public confidence, Shabana Mahmood told
Senior media figures say hiding names of those facing trial would ‘ride roughshod over the principles of open justice’
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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🚨BOOK LAUNCH🚨 at the Criminal Justice Centre QM @qmul.bsky.social @crimjusticecentre.bsky.social

Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice: Punishment, Abolition and Moral Psychology

📅 Wednesday 19th November 6pm - 7.30
📍QMUL Mile End, Room 313
Tix: FREE at tinyurl.com/2s4bf3py

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Book Launch - Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice Punishment...
Book Launch - Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice Punishment, Abolition and Moral Psychology
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October 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Statues Hardly Ever Smile (1971) short documentary directed by Stan Lathan blackfilmarchive.com/Statues-Hard...
Statues Hardly Ever Smile — Black Film Archive
Statues Hardly Ever Smile Capturing the hypnotic wonder of a group of children in the process of creating art at the Brooklyn Museum, Stan Lathan’s “Statues...
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October 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Jermaine Baker, 28, was fatally shot by an officer known only as W80, a Metropolitan police officer, in Wood Green on 11 December 2015. He was unarmed.

Now a police misconduct hearing has heard that the firearms officer used excessive force.
Firearms officer used excessive force in fatal shooting of unarmed man in London, misconduct hearing told
Jermaine Baker, from Tottenham, killed during operation to stop plot to spring gang leader from prison in 2015
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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✨Opening next week ✨

Edward George’s 'Black Atlas' opens at the Warburg on 10 October!

Drawing on the Image of the Black archive the exhibition includes a new film commission and collaged image panels.

📅 10 Oct 2025 – 17 Jan 2026
📍Warburg Institute | Free

warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM