Campaigners have asked Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to look into police killings and deaths in custody.
The deaths sparked "outrage and anger across all communities" according to the families' open letter to Rishi Sunak.
"We demand an end to state killings, and the systematic patterns and failures within the judicial process that follow the death of a loved one caused or contributed to by agents of the state," it says.Image source,The letter is written by the The United Families & Friends Campaign , which is a national coalition of those affected by deaths in police, prison and psychiatric custody.
The group was initially a network of black families but over recent years it has expanded and now includes the families and friends of people from varied ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The UFFC is calling for officers involved in custody deaths to be suspended until investigations are completed and prosecutions should automatically follow "unlawful killing" verdicts.
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