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The Preliminary hearing for the #Filton10, who have been unjustly imprisoned for trying to stop genocide, was held in Court 2 of the Old Bailey on Friday 13th September 2024 at 10.30am. This is an account of that hearing.
Yesterday we marked 32 day's that the #Filton10 have been unjustly imprisoned for trying to stop genocide.
This week we monitored a met police live facial recognition deployment in Croydon. 83% were wrongful stopped, and we witnessed systemic racism with most black suspects (all innocent) being immediately handcuffed before checks were carried out despite fully cooperating with the police - one shackled for over 30mins, whilst white suspects were never handcuffed before checks were carried out. Black innocent suspects were on average stopped for over twice as long as white innocent suspects.
Today at our weekly kitchen, as part of our campaign of solidarity with the #Filton10, we marked Day 25 of their imprisonment - ten courageous heroes who tried to stop genocide.
Recently we observed a rogue 'off the books' police facial recognition surveillance of a peaceful Palestine protest that didn't follow Met procedures and doesn't appear on the official Met LFR deployment logs.
Today the Resistance Kitchen launched a campaign in solidarity with the #Filton10. Ten brave souls who have been imprisoned for trying to stop genocide in Palestine by dismantling the production of Israeli weapons of death destined from the UK to Israel.
The Resistance Kitchen, along with 20 other community organisations, with the support of several local councillors, have launched a campaign to stop the Metropolitan Police's use of live facial recognition surveillance of our community.
The Resistance Kitchen had a short, but insightful exchange, on a public forum, with Lindsey Chiswick, the Director of Intelligence for the Metropolitan Police Service, who is also the National Police Chiefs' Council Lead on Facial Recognition.
Police live facial recognition surveillance vans have recently invaded our public spaces in Croydon. They target marginalised communities - scanning their faces to steal their biometric data without their consent, treating them like suspects forced into a digital line up against a police watchlist every time they walk near the van...
This week I attended the London Police Race Action Plan community engagement meeting in Croydon, aimed at ending the systemic racism of the Metropolitan Police Service.
Why is a convicted felon, found guilty of assaulting a black mother in front of her traumatised child, still on the police force one month after his sentencing?
On Friday 28th June, the Resistance Kitchen was privileged to join the campaign to Abolish Reporting for asylum seekers. Activists from diverse groups including Migrants Organise, set up an information stall outside Lunar House to help asylum seekers challenge the draconian 'reporting immigration bail conditions' imposed on them.