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Kim Johnson is the Labour Party MP for Liverpool Riverside.
That the police have spent the past year cracking down on peaceful protestors while doing nothing to prevent discrimination scandals is proof that the force cares more about protecting the powerful than ending institutional racism.
In 1981, a working-class community in Toxteth, Liverpool rose up against police racism, unemployment, and Thatcher’s neglect. For Black History Month, we remember the L8 Uprising.