by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Sep 16, 2022 | Articles
The fatal police shooting of Chris Kaba last week has sent shockwaves through a traumatised community. At 24 years old, Chris was studying for an architecture apprenticeship, engaged to be married and on the cusp of becoming a father. Last Monday night, he was shot...
by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Sep 14, 2022 | Articles
Last Monday, Chris Kaba was run off the road during a police pursuit on Kirkstall Gardens, a quiet residential street in the heart of my Streatham constituency, before he was shot and killed. Photographs taken the morning after at the scene show a single bullet hole...
by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Sep 9, 2022 | Articles
Chris Kaba’s family, and Streatham’s community, are in pain. The Met Police needs to give us answers. Chris Kaba, who on Monday was shot dead by police in Streatham at the age of 24, grew up in this area and is very much loved here. There’s a lot of community...
by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Jul 6, 2021 | Parliamentary Work
This week, the Government voted its draconian Policing Bill (Police Crackdown Bill) through the House of Commons. Not a single Tory MP voted against it. Rather than addressing the growing injustices of our time, they are firmly united behind silencing the people who...
by Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Feb 2, 2021 | Campaigns, News
Christopher Kapessa, a black child, died after being pushed into the River Cynon in South Wales on 1 July 2019. His family are appalled by the way the case has been handled. The Crown Prosecution Service deciding it was not in the public interest to seek a prosecution...
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