Campaign group take legal action against Manchester police after carnival ban

A CAMPAIGN group have called on police and equality watchdogs to have Greater Manchester Police abandon their “racist and discriminatory policy” ofIn a letter led by JUSTICE, a human rights charity, along with eleven other organisations including the Alliance for Youth Justice and EQUAL, they slammed the “deeply racist” move that will bar people identified as “either a member of a street gang, affiliated to a street gang” or “perceived by others to be associated to a street gang.

The Independent Advisory Group, Manchester City Council and GMP have all been called on to double-down on the “open-door racist” policing, but only the latter two repsonded hitting back at efforts to stamp out the policy. Tyrone Steele, a Criminal Justice Lawyer at JUSTICE, said: “This policy demonstrates that black, brown and racialised children and young adults continue to suffer from criminalisation at the hands of the police.

Caribbean Carnival of Manchester, which is expected to launch today till 14th in Alexandra Park, is understood to be in agreement with the decision after an anonymous chief superintendent said refusing entry to the carnival was “as per the wishes of the organisers and the community.”

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