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Death on Camera... Christopher Alder - murdered by racist police!

Kai Andersen | 14.04.2004 17:53 | Repression | Social Struggles | Liverpool

On 1st April 1998 Christopher Alder, an ex-paratrooper,
was dragged unconscious into a Hull police station.

Christopher Alder Murdered by racist police in April 1st 1998
Christopher Alder Murdered by racist police in April 1st 1998


BBC1 9pm Wednesday 14th April (videoplus 145443)

On 1st April 1998 Christopher Alder, an ex-paratrooper,
was dragged unconscious into a Hull police station.
Minutes later he died on the custody suite floor. This
investigation examines Christopher's death and whether
the case will continue to taint relations between the police
and the black community.

One to record if you don't catch it...

For some background on this click on the next link which
is an interview with Janet Alder, Christopher's sister from
Spark 15

 http://www.slpyouth.org/articles.php?issue=15&artno=4

Here’s a report on the visit we made to Burnley to meet
Janet Alder, which in itself adds background to riots in
the Northern town of Burnley in 2001.

 http://groups.msn.com/SocialistLabourPartyLiverpool/reports.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=28&LastModified=4675416944060147100

For more information see this next link…

 http://www.ncrm.org.uk/campaigns/alder.html

Kai Andersen
- e-mail: aokai@tiscali.co.uk
- Homepage: http://groups.msn.com/SocialistLabourPartyLiverpool/reports.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=28&LastModified=4675416944060147100

Comments

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Stinks

15.04.2004 22:45

Very good report Kai, seen the programme myself and thought the whole thing stunk to high hell mate.

concerned


please act upon this

17.04.2004 20:34

well i really dnt know where to start..wen i heard what happened to Christopher i felt soo angry dat people could actually treat someone like that. to let someone die for no reason at all..just mere ignorance. but i appeal to who come accross this don't just forget this upsetting event. do something about it> start educating these uneducated racists before this happens again. Christopher didn't die for nothing! God bless

Taiwo A
mail e-mail: Taiwo_a_o@hotmail.com


Aggressive

24.09.2006 17:26

The guy was fighting in the nightclub, fighting police when he was arrested, fighting staff at the local hospital where they tried to treat him and he died when they left him alone.

Pete Trent