Get your own Free Home PageRiot police clashed with demonstrators in Brixton, South London on the 14 December 1995. Cars and shops were damaged. Bricks, petrol bombs and chunks of concrete were hurled at the cops. The riots have been described as among the most serious in years.
The riot began after a demonstration of about 100 youths was held outside the Brixton police station. The youths were protesting the death of Wayne Douglas, the second Black man to die in custody in six months. In May 1995 Brian Douglas (no relation) died of head injuries after his arrest in Clapham.
They are just a few of the victims of racist cops who terrorise black ghettos and "illegal" immigrants. Of course, almost no cops have been charged for their racist violence. We can not rely on the capitalist courts for justice. Needed are mass action and militant campaigns. Like the great 1992 Los Angeles Revolt against police brutality, the Brixton riots involved both Whites and Blacks. Maximum unity of the workers and the poor in the struggle against bosses and their cops is the road to freedom.
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