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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