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Stop race checkso Stopracistenorfatlons ünfle the divided familiesnow the police action. The Whites were acquitted and were eventually awarded £51,000 in damages from the Met.
In July 1978 local black people were worried by a different aspect of state racism: they demanded that there be an inquiry in St Leonards hospital, where the administration was accused of failing to keep records of injuries to blacks.
Hackney police - above all the police at Stoke Newington station - were becoming notorious for brutality inside the nick. When five blacks were arrested in 1978, 'Osbund Morris received injuries caused, in part, by police attempts to force their heads down lavatories"
The second death came in December 1979. A black youth, Michael Ferreira, was stabbed by racists in a main street in Hackney and taken by friends to Stoke