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EM🦝JI TRIAL
Why was a Black man put on trial for using a raccoon emoji?
From policing to prosecution, this was the British justice system at its most incompetent and culturally confused.
March 14, 2024, 16.48pm
By Nels Abbey
When the young man reached out to me and told me what he was going on trial for, I was in total disbelief. I could not believe such a thing would happen in a free, enlightened and multicultural Western nation. I told myself there just had to be more to it. Alas, there was not: a Black British man was, indeed, in court solely for the ‘crime’ of sending a raccoon emoji in a tweet and using the word ‘coons’. I was so shocked I was left with no option but to clear three days of work out of my diary (and forgo all associated earnings) to go to court and support the young man and document the trial itself. I had to see it with my own two eyes. So, I attended every single minute of the trial.
It was a complete farce.
Enough with "police statements" - show us the footage
After a video of a young London mother being handcuffed in front of her kid went viral, police issued a statement trying to paint their victim as the villain. This ritual needs to stop.
A handcuffed Black mother is being tussled by a group of police officers, even as her clearly traumatised son screams in despair. It’s broad daylight on a London high street. “You’re hurting my arm” she says, “what are you doing?”. Confused as anyone else by the melee, the passerby filming asks the arresting officer: “Can you tell me what she has done, please?”
Intoxicated with the pathetic arrogance that comes with power the police officer nonchalantly responds, “No”.
Moments later, it becomes clear why the woman had been handcuffed: £1.75, the cost of a London bus fare. The police suspected she was a fare evader; she denied it and was cuffed and publicly humiliated for her trouble. It's official: £1.75 is worth traumatising a child over and needlessly placing an innocent woman under arrest and in handcuffs.
July 25, 2023, 16.10pm
By Nels Abbey
In this clip below @mlothianmclean and I explore how the daffy duck gif or can land you in a cell in the UK (even before trial). We also unveil the Tory PPC at the centre of this gravely episode for civil liberties in the UK, the Police and the CPS.
In this clip @mlothianmclean and I explore how the daffy duck gif or 🦝 can land you in a cell in the UK (even before trial). We also unveil the Tory PPC at the centre of this gravely episode for civil liberties in the UK, the Police and the CPS. #EmojiTrial#CancelCulture https://t.co/4cZNM5Pg8N pic.twitter.com/i9G9lMZ19A
— Nels is on Bluesky & Insta and in good book shops (@nelsabbey) March 2, 2024
APRIL 18th, 2024 - At United Nations, British Lawyer, Ife Thompson raised ongoing concerns on the exclusion and erasure of Black/Creole languages and the prosecution and policing of the use of Black Language critique words like “Coon/Coconut et al” and Rap music. Ife ended her intervention with our daily demands - #freeHaiti#freeCongo#FreePalesitne
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Ife Thompson
Movement Lawyer at 1MCB Chambers, Founder of BLAM UK and
Black Protest Legal Support UK
Ife Thompson is also an award-nominated UK-based Community Activist, Black History Expert, Curator and Writer. She was also recently crowned Miss Ebony UK Culture and Tourism 2023. She campaigns for the rights of people of African Descent in the UK, as she believes we should live in a world where Black people can live free from Racism and Oppression.
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