Brixton Police Station Picket, pre 1981
Demonstration outside Brixton Police Station by black activists, parents and friends against deaths in police custody, harassment and intimidation by the police. Early to late 1970s.
The barely decipherable placards read: Oppose Police Brutality, End Pig Rule, Police Muggers Out, Go To Hell CCRL, (Council for Community Relations Lambeth), Pregnant Woman's Death By Police.....
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Deaths and beatings in police custody and harassment, arrest and false imprisonment at Brixton police station of mostly black youth were met with resistance from local black activists and the parents and friends of those who had been falsely accused and detained under the stop and search ‘sus’ laws. Brixton gays, also harassed by the police, joined the picket in solidarity with protesters and those detained. The Gay activists’ alliance also attended the pickets. These racist attacks by the police against black people had been going on for several years culminating in the Brixton uprising of 1981.