Stand Up To Racism Dorset has received “sincere apologies” from Dorset Police after campaigners complained of racial profiling by the force on social media.
When Weymouth and Portland police used an image of a young Black man to accompany a Facebook post on “county lines” drug dealing, Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) wrote to the Chief Constable and...
This racially profiled image is prominently displayed on the Weymouth and Portland Police Facebook page. The unacceptable message to the public is clear - young black men are responsible for so-called county lines drug-trafficking.
If this image was deliberately posted by our local police, it goes a long way towards...
The Roma Flag will be flying over County Hall this weekend and on Monday in commemoration of the deaths of the 23,000 Roma and Sinti murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Of the men, women and children collected up and sent to the concentration camp 20,000 were murdered and the...
The use of Stop and Search by police against Black people in Dorset has reached unprecedented levels. Black people are now 31 times more likely than white people to be stopped under these powers. Shockingly, this is the highest rate of Stop and Search of an ethnic group of any police...
Rubika Shah’s energising film charts a vital London protest movement. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, prompted by ‘music’s biggest colonialist’ Eric Clapton and his support of racist MP Enoch Powell. White Riot blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant...
From Dorset to Oxfordshire to London to Bristol and beyond the campaign is spreading to change the school curriculum and to dump the colonisation of it by a parochial and de contextualised curriculum.
As part of this a student has launched a petition calling for all schools in the UK...
If you have children or grandchildren or are a teacher... please show this great clip to them.
https://twitter.com/cbbc/status/1271129658722070529?s=20
Many people on social media have criticised Dorset police in recent days for their disproportionate stop and search activity against BAME members of communities.
'Racial disproportionality continues to be high for black people across Dorset. In 2017/18, black people were stopped and searched at approximately sixteen and a half times...
Alongside many others across the UK Millie Cridland from Weymouth took the knee to symbolically call for justice for George Floyd, murdered by police officers in the US, and to make her mark for Black Lives Matter.
Millie said 'I had to do it when I heard it was taking...
Officers investigating an incident of racial abuse and assault in Wimborne are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.
At around 12.30am on Wednesday 1 January 2020 a woman shouted racial abuse at a man outside Wimborne Kebab House on Crown Mead.
A second woman who was in...
