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They Couldn t Breathe: Families Of British Men Who Died In Police Custody Speak Out
1,784 people have died in England and Wales after contact with the police since 1990 – yet no officer has been held to account
Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: Getty/Handout
British men who have died in police custody. Pictured (from left) Lloyd Butler, Sean Rigg, Christopher Alder in baseball cap and his paratrooper s uniform, and Mikey Powell
The CCTV footage shows a man face down on the floor of a police station, handcuffed and unresponsive, as he gasps for breath.
Officers are heard laughing and joking while making monkey and chimpanzee noises, apparently unmoved by the desperate plight of the man in front of them.
Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson.
When Boris Johnson addressed Joe Biden’s climate change summit on Earth Day this week, he was on characteristically playful form. Pointing out that the UK had slashed carbon emissions while increasing growth in recent years, he turned to his favourite Brexit concept of having one’s cake and eating it. “‘Cake-have-eat’ is my message to you,” the PM told 40 fellow world leaders.
As Biden unveiled a historic new pledge to cut the US’s emissions by half by 2030, Johnson announced his own fresh commitment to show some global leadership.
Ahead of the UK’s hosting of the all-important COP26 climate talks in Glasgow in November, it would write into law a plan to cut its emissions by 78% (compared to 1990 levels) by 2035, as recommended by its independent climate change committee.
Riz Ahmed On Sound Of Metal, His Most Accomplished Performance Yet
For his latest movie, Ahmed wore a hearing aid and bleached his hair. But it was his internal transformation that really counted.
By Matthew Jacobs
12/10/2020 05:45 am ET
When Riz Ahmed first showed up in the 2014 thriller “Nightcrawler,” it was the sort of big-screen baptism that makes you sit up and say, “Who’s that guy?” Playing a hard-up hopeful who finds cheap work assisting a bug-eyed Los Angeles crime videographer (Jake Gyllenhaal), Ahmed capitalized on his youthfulness to infuse the role with a frenzied naiveté. The London-born actor was so alive on-screen that his career prospects already seemed blessed.