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The Metropolitan Police Service and the Lambeth London Borough Council must pay the Nation of Islam $130,000 in damages, England’s High Court of Justice ruled on Monday.
Justice Neil Stephen Garnham ruled that the two agencies conspired to prevent Minister Louis Farrakhan from giving a speech about slavery reparations in 2017. In doing so, the two groups violated the rights of 34 Black representatives of the U.K. Nation of Islam.
Farrakhan was set to deliver a remote speech at the 4th Africa International Day of Action event in August 2017 about the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the justifications for reparations. Police claimed the blocked they speech to prevent “disorder” but lawyers with the Nation of Islam disagreed.
Police Ordered to Pay Nation of Islam $130K for Blocking Louis Farrakhan Reparations Speech
On 5/11/21 at 1:11 PM EDT
England s High Court of Justice ordered the Metropolitan Police Service and the Lambeth London Borough Council to pay $130,000 in damages to Black activists from the Nation of Islam Monday, with the judge ruling that the agencies worked together to prevent Louis Farrakhan from giving a 2017 speech on slavery reparations.
The High Court s Justice Neil Stephen Garnham ruled Monday that Met Police and the Lambeth city breached the human rights of 34 Black representatives from the U.K. Nation of Islam ahead of an August 2017 event called the 4th Africa International Day of Action. Organizers had scheduled Farrakhan to deliver a remote speech about reparations to Kennington Park event attendees. His planned remarks cited hundreds of years of the trans-Atlantic slave trade as justification for seeking modern reparation benefits. Nation of Islam lawyers rejected police cl