UK rallies protest cop brutality in Britain and US

Militant/Hugo Wils

LIVERPOOL, England — Around 800 people rallied here July 16 in solidarity with protests in the U.S. after the fatal police shootings there of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. Among them were friends and relatives of Mzee Mohammed, who died in police custody three days earlier. Above, Karla Mohammed, Mzee’s mother, addresses the rally. “Lots of you have seen the video which shows police laughing when they detained my son,” she said, “but my son will not be a number or statistic, we will get justice.”

More than 1,000 joined a similar protest in Manchester July 11, marching from Moss Side, a working-class neighborhood with a large proportion of people of Caribbean descent, to the town hall. Among the speakers was Carole Duggan, aunt of Mark Duggan, who was shot to death by police in London in 2011.

— HUGO WILS