A WAVE OF POLICE REPRESSION has followed the youth uprising. Evidence is mounting of a vicious campaign by the police and the courts to exact vengeance against youth and black people, against a background 'subversives and extreme iste agitators.
Amongst the evidence * In Hackney in East London a mentally disturbed black man, Winston Rose was taken from his home on 13 July by dozens of police with 'restraining shields'. The next morning he was dead. His family said that his body was 'covered in bruises'. * The have contirmed stories of widespread violence against black youth held in custody in Manchester. Dr Donald Bodey told the Times that he had seen injuries 'I never expected to see in England'. * In addition to the raids in Brixton, police have mounted raids in Southall and other parts of the country. The excuse of looking for 'looted' property is being used to harass and intimidate the black * Hundreds of youth arrested during the uprising pleading guilty have been given bail. A curfew has been put on those on bai!, and prison camps are being prepared to house those eventually imprisoned * There are numerous reports of sexual abuse and taunts from male police against young women in custody. * Many relatives have not been able to establish hysteria about following:
Bishop of Manchester and local doctors in general only lose the whereabouts of youth suffering.
be given a whole new armoury of repression. * The response of the Labour leadership wave of repression has been pathetic.
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arrested during the uprising. Police have given deliberately wrong information to relatives, to increase their distress and * it has been oroved that police in Liverooc deliberately fired lethal CS gas bullets, designed to penetrate doors and reinforced glass, at people on the streets during the rioting. Now the police are to to this All they could do was congratulate Whitelaw on his statement in the Commons, including his insulting proposal to send axe-man Heseltine to Liverpool to inEven Eric Heffer grovelled to Whitelaw saying going along with this disgusting spectacle of Labour support for the Tory repres sion, the labour movement should take up the de mand of slinaton south CLP for an amnestv for al those charged during the riots, and the demand for re-equip the predictions that the technology repression used in the North of Ireland would be eventually used on the streets of Britain, are being The labour movement must campaign against these repressive moves and against the bans on demonstrations. Only the labour movement has the power to throw back the atmosphere of strong