Bøger af Colin Bobb-Semple

"Fatal Protest: A 'Riot'?" - another Play penned by Colin Bobb-Semple, presents a tragic Courtroom Drama for Film, TV and Stage. * The police raid the London home of a woman of African-Caribbean descent; * She collapses whilst in police custody and dies; * Her grandson, a law student, and over 1,000 students and others, assemble outside the police station and protest about police brutality, harassment, stop and search and deaths in custody; * A group of police officers, mounted on horseback, charge towards the protesters to disperse them; * In the melee, some protesters and police officers are injured; * The protest becomes a violent confrontation, allegedly a riot; * A mounted police officer sustains a fatal injury. The play is a dramatic representation of the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey homicide trial of the deceased woman's grandson, and its tragic consequences.

This play, a Courtroom Drama for Film, TV and Stage, which is presented mainly in a Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey courtroom setting in London, England, concerns the murder trial of a young man of African-Caribbean descent, who became involved in a fatal wounding of another young man of African-Caribbean descent, at a London night club.

This book is based on materials included in the author's Degree Research Study submitted for the Master of Arts, Criminal Justice, Brunel University, in 1993, and in his presentation "Race, Bail, Sentencing, and Human Rights in England and Wales" at a Conference on RACE held in 2008 at Monmouth University, New Jersey, USA. Statistics of Police Stop and Search activities in England and Wales show that Black people were Stopped and Searched 7 TIMES MORE than White people in 2009/10 and were Arrested over 3 TIMES MORE than White people, in relation to their proportions in the general population (Ministry of Justice, 2010). Rev. Jesse Jackson is reported to have stated that Britain's moral authority was damaged by the government's failure to stop the police discriminating against ethnic minorities (The Guardian, Sunday 17 October 2010). The prison statistics show that in 2010, the Black ethnic group comprised 13.7% of the prison population in England and Wales, over 5 TIMES the proportion (2.7%) of Black people in the general population; Two of the questions posed by the author are: - - What is the explanation for the disproportionate numbers of Black people in custody? - Does discrimination in the criminal justice process account for the high figures? Section 149 of the Equality Act 2010 imposes an Equality Duty on public authorities. The author discusses: - * comparisons with the USA's very high rates of incarceration of African-American males, considered by Professor Floyd Weatherspoon to place them in a system of de facto slavery; * the findings of the court observation in the Degree Research Study; * "Institutional Racism" first defined in 1967 by Stokely Carmichael & Dr. Charles V. Hamilton in the USA, and found by the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report (1999) to exist in the police force and in other institutions in England and Wales; * the roots of "Institutional Racism" in the Trans-Atlantic trafficking in enslaved Africans for three and a half centuries, Social Darwinism, Criminal Anthropology, Lombroso's theories, Colonialism, and the "Colour Bar" in England in the 1940's-60's; * the racial attacks on Black people in Nottingham and Notting Hill, London in 1958 and the murder of Kelso Cochrane in London in 1959; * the themes raised in interviews in the degree study on bail applications, i.e. the concepts of "Fear", "Otherness", "Alienness", the "Image" and the "Black Stranger Syndrome"; and * concludes by making some recommendations - R.E.M.E.D.Y. - for addressing Racial Equality issues and improving the criminal justice process.

This book is an expanded version of an essay by the author published in Texas Wesleyan Law Review "English Common Law, Slavery, and Human Rights" 13 Tex. Wesleyan L. Rev. 659 (2007), which was developed from a paper presented by the author at a conference in Gloucester, England in 2006 "Too Pure an Air: Law and the Quest for Freedom, Justice, and Equality"; it discusses villeinage in England and the regal age of African history, with particular reference to Kemet (Ancient Egypt), its influence on Greek and Roman law and consequently on European and English Law; the legal aspects of "human chattel" African enslavement as it applied to English plantations in the Americas, with examples from Guyana, South America; the way in which English Common Law dealt with the issue of African enslavement when faced with court applications by Africans who sought emancipation on English soil; the African holocaust e.g. the Zong maritime genocide and insurance claim; the development of human rights in England and on the plantations in Guyana, notably the 1763 Berbice Revolutionary War of Independence led by Kofi against the Dutch colonists, during which an African revolutionary government was formed, believed to be the first of its kind in the region, preceding the American Revolutionary War of Independence (1775-1783), The French Revolution (1789-1802) and the Haitian Revolutionary War of Independence (1791-1804); the Demerara Uprising in 1823, led by Jack Gladstone, son of Quamina, during which 13,000 enslaved Africans sought unconditional emancipation from the British, greatly influencing the abolition cause in England; the Essequibo protest led by Damon in 1834 against the apprenticeship system which was introduced by law in most of the British colonies on emancipation; and the incorporation of several Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights in the domestic law of the UK in 2000.

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