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Black Lives Matter isn't about statues or TV shows. It's about real lives being ruined | Nosheen Iqbal

Ignore the trivialising punditry. This movement exists because of police brutality and systemic unfairness
‘Every Black Lives Matter event I’ve been to in recent weeks has felt political and urgent ...’ Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

In the past six weeks, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been contacted about police brutality in Britain. As a reporter, I’ve been sent photos of a black child picked up and thrown to the ground by an officer on Hampstead Heath. I’ve witnessed a dozen officers chase and aggressively pin an unarmed black 14-year-old boy on to his belly in a Tottenham park. I’ve been emailed a video of black teenagers cuffed, harassed and searched by officers while their white friend can only watch. Another of young black men physically

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