Police suspended over Joy Gardner’s death

Title

Police suspended over Joy Gardner’s death

Genre

Interview

TX Date

3 Aug 1993

Year of production

1993

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Duration

00:05:26

Description

Bernie Grant, MP for Tottenham interviewed from Scotland Yard by Angela Rippon on the decision to suspend 3 Metropolitan Police officers over the death of Jamaican Joy Gardner in police custody as they attempted to serve a deportation order whilst the Police Complaints Authority inquiry is unertaken; if he expected such a swift response from Met Police Commissioner Paul Condon; the accusation of him causing a race bandwagon; and the picket at Hornsey police station he will speak at tonight.

Contributors

Bernie Grant; Angela Rippon

Keywords

Deaths; Deportation; London; Interethnic relations; Metropolitan Police; Policing practice; Police personnel; Black peoples; Accidental death; Joy Gardner; Paul Condon; Hornsey

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