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Kai Agyepong with his mum Mina
A TORY minister suggested on Tuesday that the mother of a 12-year-old boy arrested by armed officers over a toy gun was overreacting when she expressed fear for her children’s lives.
Mina Agyepong said that she “honestly believed” officers could have shot her daughters during a raid on their north London home at 11pm on July 17.
Her son Kai was handcuffed and restrained after 10 armed officers were sent to the house after a passerby reported seeing a “black male holding a firearm on the sofa.”
Remembering the 1787 Calton Weavers strike, MATT KERR argues that golden thread of our history needs weaving into the fabric of every community in the land
We are experiencing a wave of organised, often deadly violence targeting migrants from other parts of Africa — but the poorest South Africans reject this hatred, staying true to the spirit of Ubuntu and Pan-African unity, reports NIGEL BRANKEN
Singer Nezza’s rendition of the US national anthem in Spanish has ignited important conversation around arrests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, writes LESLIE AMBRIZ