Death of Joy Gardner
- Title
- Death of Joy Gardner
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
- TX Date
- 4 Aug 1993
- Year of production
- 1993
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- Duration
- 00:03:09
- Description
- Oni Bhattacharya reports on the protests outside Hornsey police station by North London’s black community over the police action they see as racist which led to the death of Jamaican woman Joy Gardner after a struggle with officers as they tried to serve a deportation order. Includes Paul Condon, Metropolitan Police Commissioner announcing the suspension of three officers; interviews on police heavy-handedness with protesters Cecilia Prosper, Socialist Workers Party; Mark Butler, Campaign Against Militarism; George Silcott, brother of Winston (wrongly convicted for killing policeman in Broadwater Farm riots); speeches by Cynthia Gardner, Joy’s sister and Bernie Grant local MP. Chanting and heckling heard.
- Contributors
- Bernie Grant; Paul Condon; Oni Bhattacharya; George Silcott; Cecilia Prosper; Mark Butler; Cynthia Gardner
- Keywords
- Deaths; Deportation; London; Interethnic relations; Police; Demonstrations; Policing practice; Police personnel; Black peoples; Institutional racism; Joy Gardner; Hornsey
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