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Such a serious and devastating issue and the replies are full of unashamedly racist and offensive comments. This is where we’re at.
On pretty much all measures, Black women endure a worse experience of pregnancy and maternity care in this country than other groups.
Filmmakers and friends Pip Bennett-Warner and Pippa Vosper have set to highlight the issue based on harrowing true stories depicting what some Black women have gone through in their new film 22+1.
The NHS has launched a rapid investigation into maternity failings which the Secretary of State has pledged to enact.
Please be aware this report does deal with the distressing topic of baby loss.
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This story just keeps getting worse 😱 at what point is somebody going to hold them hands up and stop @ImanZayna having to relive this trauma over and over again it’s been 3 years!!
30 September 2024:
@MailOnline Article published
***BIG UPDATE***
⚠️trigger warning ⚠️
💔I have made the heartbreaking decision to release more footage of my time with Greater Manchester Police (see video👇🏼). A total of 4.5 hours are missing/corrupted.
After a 4-5 hour sobriety period how will the IOPC explain me getting 'high' again after being fully stripsearched?Disturbing footage: a few seconds of every hour I was detained (see video👇🏼).
This is the biggest coverup and over 43 months later sex offenders are still serving for @gmpolice with the IOPC @policeconduct and @AndyBurnhamGM in cohorts.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
🩷Thank you🩷 to journalist @ElizabethHaighx for covering my case. Thank you to everyone for your continuous support🥰
I do…
Institutional racism
Misogyny
White female privilege
Intersectionality
Black women not being viewed as victims
I really don't understand how this happened
There was an off duty police officer on the same train who watched a white woman verbally and then physically assault three black women
And the three black women were taken to court? As the white woman played victim when the on duty police turned up?
How much stress, frustration and injustice have these three women suffered?
And I hope that off duty police officer has been kicked off the force, horrific, absolutely horrific
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This is so heartbreaking 💔 to lose a young child but then have to fight an oppressive and institutionally racist organisation to get justice. Sickening 😭
Noah Bush, 8 years old, was found drowned in Jesup, Georgia in May 2024. He went out to play with neighborhood kids & never came home. After finding his body in a small body of water the sheriff’s office immediately announced it was accidental & for two months they did nothing.
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Stunning delivery 👏🏾
Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood, "I was astonished by the shadow minister's remarks.. He said he was deeply troubled by the measure we are bringing before the house today"
"But he and his party, the previous Conservative government, were not troubled enough to prevent this prisons crisis from occurring in the first place"
👏 @ShabanaMahmood 🔥
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This is absolutely unacceptable. The MBS was documented from birth, mum raised the concerns herself. Not one person thought to use a rational and common sense approach? The trauma for both mum and baby cannot be underestimated.
A breastfeeding mum was separated from her 6mo baby & locked in a cell for 20 hrs after staff at Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospital had her arrested on suspicion of child neglect after mistaking her son's ‘blue spot’ birthmarks for bruises. Devastating bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy08…
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“The past 10 months have reaffirmed my lack of faith in the system and served as a daily reminder of the challenges we are up against as black, minoritised and migrant victim-survivors seeking a just response from an institutionally racist system.” standard.co.uk/news/crime/tu…
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Prayers for Jamaica 🙏🏾
Reports from the US National Hurricane Centre advise that Hurricane Beryl has intensified into a “potentially catastrophic” Category 5 storm
The storm is headed toward Jamaica after causing damage in Grenada, Carriacou, St Vincent & the Grenadines.
#prayersforthecaribbean
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I have no idea why anybody is shocked by this. People can’t be seriously surprised that these are the views many within the party and those voting for them, hold.
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Given all that we know about the actions/inactions of the Met Police during this ‘investigation’, the subsequent Enquiries that highlighted the institutionalised racism within this force I actually can’t believe what I’m reading.
The CPS decision not to bring criminal charges against four police officers involved in the initial weeks of the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation has been upheld following a review.
➡️cps.gov.uk/cps/news/decision…
ALT Rosemary Ainslie, Head of CPS Special Crime Division: "Following our decision in July 2023 not to bring criminal charges against four police officers involved in the initial weeks of the investigation into Stephen's murder, we received a request to review the decision under the Victims' Right to Review scheme. "Offences of misconduct in public office were reconsidered, but the review upheld the original decision not to bring any criminal charges against the four officers in the case. "We understand this news will be extremely disappointing for Stephen's family and friends, and the CPS has offered a meeting to explain our decision."
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The are a number of significant issues worldwide right now. Notably the silence from key SW platforms re the impact of this war on innocent lives is deafening. As usual on these issues it’s crickets. Key SW values are promoting the rights of others & social justice yet nothing 😔
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Feeling extremely disaffected & disappointed with @UKLabour right now on a number of levels. I’ve never ever considered not voting but the thought has genuinely crossed my mind. Sad times.
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Imagine not being allowed to speak for yourself but sit and listen to a bunch of guys discuss you… atrocious
I don't know whose interests the Speaker thinks he is serving. But it is not the interests of the Commons or democracy.
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/s…
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