LONDON — More than 1,000 people rallied outside Islington police station here demanding “Justice for Henry Hicks” April 4. Hicks, 18, died last December when two unmarked police cars chased him on his scooter and he collided with a car. The action took place after an Arsenal soccer match. Hicks was an avid Arsenal supporter.

Led by his family, protesters marched to the station from their home on Liverpool Street, going past a mural painted in his memory near the site of the crash.

“It’s important to show support to the family,” Sara Kalkan told the Militant. She, like many others on the march, lives in the neighborhood. “And it’s important that the police not be allowed to get away with this.”

The four Scotland Yard constables who were chasing Hicks have been told they are under investigation by the government’s Independent Police Complaints Commission, but all four remain on the job.

“If it had been members of the public chasing someone in cars which led to a death those people would have been arrested and locked up,” Claudia Hicks, 23, Henry’s sister, told the Independent. “There has always been a real ‘them and us’ feel with younger people and the police in Islington. Henry and his friends used to get bullied by police a lot.”