“If the algorithm can’t read my lips, it’s a problem with the system, and not with me.”
systemic racism

Tamla Horsford’s death was ruled an accident, the medical examiner finding that her broken bones and internal injuries were consistent with the result of a fall off a 14-foot-high deck after a night of drinking.

On Thursday 10 June, 2020, the NFL decided to hold a “moment of silence dedicated to the ongoing fight for equality in our country”.

For the thousands of messages of hate and ignorance – Thank you. You highlight exactly what needs to change.”

It might take one person to spark that thought or that confidence that, ‘You know what, my life matters, what I do matters, and I can succeed regardless of the oppressive nature of the system I have been put in.’

His fateful walk to the convenience store for a bag of Skittles and an iced tea happened on the evening of February 26.

And we have heard about the brute force with which the police held Seni in a prolonged restraint which they knew to be dangerous: a restraint that was maintained until Seni was dead for all intents and purposes.

At a preliminary trial hearing which started on 4 June, a judge determined that there was enough evidence to try all three men for murder. The three men have denied the charges.

Because there is no homicide determination, it could be difficult to find any cops criminally liable for his death.

The fact that the last time a British police officer was convicted for a death in custody was in 1969 – despite several verdicts of unlawful killing since – is all the more galling.