Protesters march in the street as lightning flashes in the distance in Ferguson. Charlie Riedel /Press Association Images/File. All rights reserved.
Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Sandra Bland. The roll call of African American lives lost to police brutality or in police custody is heartbreaking and begins long before the Black Lives Matter movement came to international prominence. Along with the rest of the world, the UK media has followed the news, protests and the narrative that has emerged from America on issues of race, policing and justice.
We have our own shameful roll call, but names like Joy Gardner, Sheku Bayoh or Sarah Reed spring to mind less readily. And although the issue of deaths in police custody is so serious as to merit a review by the Home Secretary, we are not having a national conversation on the issue.
