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Case dropped against Met police officer who shot unarmed man Officer, known as W80, shot Jermaine Baker during a foiled prison break in 2015

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...

expect and challenge this leading to coroners and inquests to follow suit bsky.app/profile/hjac...

Book Launch - Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice Punishment... Book Launch - Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice Punishment, Abolition and Moral Psychology

🚨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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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...

Statues Hardly Ever Smile (1971) short documentary directed by Stan Lathan blackfilmarchive.com/Statues-Hard...

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

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.

Cassandra Somers-Joce: A New Chapter for Governmental Candour? The Public Office (Accountability) Bill The Public Office (Accountability) Bill was introduced into the House of Commons on 16 September 2025. It gives effect to the Labour Party’s 2024 Manifesto commitment to introduce a ‘Hillsborough L…

Cassandra Somers-Joce: A New Chapter for Governmental Candour? The Public Office (Accountability) Bill ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/06/c...

✨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

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