{"id":619,"date":"2006-04-24T19:08:22","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T18:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/04\/24\/met_police_thuggery_alive_and_well"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:42:22","slug":"met_police_thuggery_alive_and_well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/04\/24\/met_police_thuggery_alive_and_well","title":{"rendered":"Met Police thuggery alive and well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone thought that malicious police harrassment of ethnic minority men died a death after the Brixton riots of the early 1980s?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/g2\/story\/0,,1759750,00.html\">This report<\/a> might make you think again: in the last three years, but particularly since the murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky last year, police in south-east London have been harrassing young Somali men on the streets of Woolwich and Plumstead in south-east London.  The demonstration referred to here concerns the suspicious fall of a young Somali man from a balcony:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut there are still tensions. At the demonstration, several young Somali men say they have been excessively stopped and searched by the police. &quot;It&#39;s got bad in the last three years,&quot; says 18-year-old Anwar, &quot;but in the last year, it&#39;s got worse.&quot; He and other Somali young men date it to the murder of Bradford police officer Sharon Beshenivsky in November &#8211; the first suspects to be arrested in her murder were six Somali men from Woolwich (they were later released.) Since then, says Ibrahim, 18, &quot;they&#39;re out for revenge.&quot;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone thought that malicious police harrassment of ethnic minority men died a death after the Brixton riots of the early 1980s? This report might make you think again: in the last three years, but&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-9Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42496,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/42496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}