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Brixton riots 40 years on: From policing to inequality, residents say ‘progress slipping away’
Nadine White
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On an April day in 1981, local anger at entrenched racism and police mistreatment erupted onto the streets of south London.
It was Thatcher’s Britain, and social inequality was growing, with soaring unemployment rates among Black Britons.
The already iconic neighbourhood of Brixton has, in the 40 years since, become synonymous with the riots that followed, a moment which caused the powers-that-be to finally ask questions of themselves about policing, racism and identity.
While undoubtedly a watershed moment in the movement for race equality in Brixton – the Scarman report, produced in November of same year to examine the riot, acknowledged for the first time the discriminatory policing of Black people – 40 years later, and many locals are still questioning what has changed. ....

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