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If legal redress or equitable relief to an injured party is available, but is not forthcoming in a timely fashion.
It is effectively the same as having no remedy at all.
Theres been no Justice for Grenfell
Lets discuss law and ethics for times like these…
There is a few areas I would like to explore.
SUPERIOR ORDERS
An “order” may come from one’s superior at the level of national law enforcement like the police.
But such an order from a senior is sometimes “unlawful”. Such an “unlawful order” presents a legal dilemma from which there is not a legal escape.
INTERNAL
On one hand, a person who refuses such an unlawful order faces the possibility of minor punishment by disciplinary action at the national level for refusing orders.
From thier employers department .
UNLAWFUL CRIMINAL ACTS
On the other hand, a person who acts on an unlawful order faces the possibility of or committing unlawful criminal acts.
ETHICS GOLDEN RULE
Just Treatment
The ethic of reciprocity, or Golden Rule. It states that one has a right to just treatment, and therefore they have a reciprocal responsibility to ensure justice for others.
HIGHER ETHICS
Higher ethics, such as those, could be used by an individual to solve the legal dilemma presented by the superior orders. Which police officers should take if witnessing certain unjust unethical treatment.
The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him or her.
MORALS
Morally we know that what is right or wrong.
It is unlawful to take anothers life, immoral and unethical.
I wish all reading all the best in life
#justice
Hear our cries
The Metropolitan police are out of control.
Police had made some improvements but these were insufficient to gain support in certain communities, damaging their ability to fight crime.
Without the community behind you it is harder to solve crimes. It is like a them-and-us situation.
We do not want people stealing and being involved in crime.
However many people still think the police are not there for them.
The recommendations made by the McPhearson report that arose from the murder of Stephen Laurence , have still not been implemented.
A body must be constituted immediately to moniter the police progress and with timeframe for its full implementation.
Reform now !! Including the association of chief police officers.
This is the time, no more delay.
#London #2020elections #sadiqkhan
#Britain #UK #policereform
False assumptions about the intelligence, morality, physical ability and health of people of African descent are still made today, which affects public policy and private life.
Indeed, the wider relationship between the British empire, British slave trade and scientific racism has continued to impact on the lives of all non-white people, including those of Asian heritage.
Housing provision, education policy, policing strategy, medical outcomes, employment statistics.
All of these things are inflected by the idea of racial difference; sometimes consciously, sometimes not.
The over-representation of black children among child poverty statistics, and their under-representation among university graduates, for example, are not random coincidences, nor are they caused by ‘innate’ racial characteristics.
The structural racism with which British society grapples today is a direct consequence of cultural attitudes, economic policies and social constructs rooted in the slave trade.
In the #UK
An independent review of deaths in police custody between 1989/1990 and 2008/2009 found that a disproportionate number of people from #Black #Asian Minority Ethnic communities (and those with mental health concerns) have died following the use of force by police.
The in the United States of America courts protected police abuses for years before George Floyd’s death. It’s time to rethink “qualified immunity” of the police.
In the United Kingdom many black people have been killed in police custody.
Politicans have not ended the violence by the police to civilians.
Laws of current UK legislation by politicans have not chamged the violent excessive police brutality , mainly against black people.
Even with the election of minority ethnic mayor of London or London assembly members in 2016.
I myself in 2017 was subjected to violence by a white male metropolitan police officer
No one has yet apologised , I wrote to my elected representative at city hall, who sits on the metroplitan police committee and he told me to move on and forget the assualt I suffered by the police.
I remain deeply worried that the police officer who attacked me, could go on to kill another member of the public, if they are not stopped.
Police have been killing black, asian, hispanic, latino , native, Aboriginal, Indigenous, minority people and the poor white citizens for decades.
Police reform efforts of the last half-decade have failed to stop racist policing and killings.
Meanwhile, the striking visuals of enormous, militarized and at times violent police forces responding to peaceful protests have led us to question whether police really need this much money and firepower.
No More Money for the Police budget
Redirect it to emergency response programs that don’t kill black asian and other vunlerable people.
Not identical but lets reflect on UK’s own police death in custody history.
Mr. Colin Roach
Mr. Rasha Charles
Mr. Sean Rigg
Mr. Roger Sylvester
Ms. Joy Gardner
Ms. Cynthia Jarrett
No charges or conviction was ever taken against any police officer.
#Politics #London #Britain #Sadiqkhan
When oppression becomes a way of life for a group of men/women in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.
#GeorgeFloyd
Reference : Frédéric Bastiat
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