November 2016 - my london diary - photographs of protests and events in London by Peter Marshall

Justice & Reparations for Ricky Bishop

Brixton, London. Sun 20 Nov 2016

The procession ended at Brixton Police Station inside which Ricky Bishop was murdered

Doreen Jjuuko, mother of Ricky Bishop

'Sister Unity'

A poster of Ricky Bishop was taped to the tree

'We Remember Ricky Bishop - We Demand Justice'

Some call the tree in front of the police station 'the lynching tree' because of the deaths of Black people inside

for years it was a memorial tree, with flowers and tributes to some of the dead, including

Wayne Douglas, Ricky Bishop and Sean Rigg. But all these were stripped off in October 2015
on the day when the United Families and Friends of those killed in custody were taking part in their
annual memorial march in Westminster, knowing they would be away from Brixton.

and flowers were taped next to the poster

'Sister Unity' performed her poem 'The Lynching Tree Down Brixton Way' which she wrote after hearing an
interview with Doreen Bishop in 2004

Rhonda, Ricky's sister listens

Doreen Jjuuko, mother of Ricky Bishop speaks

People hold lighted candles in a silence in memory of Ricky Bishop

and then place the candles around the memorial tree

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