The latest time, a number of interventions by the stewards against dark-skinned people paid attention, because they are perceived as unjustifiably violent. In particular, an intervention in the Coffin against some twelve-year-old boys and one in the subway to a pregnant woman, has aroused strong emotions.
this was The background to a manifestation in Kungsträdgården in Stockholm on Saturday against what is described as the excessive use of force and structural racism from the police force.
Image 1 of 2 Kungsträdgårdens the north end was filled by the participants in the manifestation against the excessive use of force by police and guards. Photo: Hampus Andersson Slide 2 of 2 Scarlet and Lizeth were two of the participants in Saturday’s parade. ”We have seen that many guards have been violent,” said Scarlet. Photo: Hampus Andersson Slideshow
the manifestation, which gathered an estimated a couple of thousand participants, was the host of the show Amie Bramme Sey.
She took on the DN-interview with the ceo of bevakningsbolaget CSG, whose stewards have been criticised for the excessive use of force. According to the managing director Pelle Johansson is a zero tolerance policy against racism within the company.
– the Article put his finger on the problem. Why should the stewards be free from structural racism, which exists in the whole of society? asked Bramme Sey rhetorically.
“It is problematic that the president can’t even admit you have a problem and want to do something about it,” she said to DN.
the Protests against the harsh crackdown on the children of the Kista galleria shopping center, and against the pregnant woman had been stronger, if the victims had been white, he Bramme Sey.
She thought that Sweden is behind countries such as the USA and the Uk, where research shows that the police treatment of citizens is different depending on the colour, as it’s usually known as racial profiling.
Amie Bramme Sey was one of those who spoke during the manifestation. Photo: Hampus Andersson
Bilan Osman from Expo magazine, talked about an ongoing avhumanisering and asked where the decency in society has taken the road when the twelve-year-old boys are forced down on the floor by the guards.
– You should be able to be twelve years, and loud in a library without being exposed to ill-treatment, ” said Osman.
Politicians want even more police officers in the suburbs, where one can hardly go shopping without seeing the police, while there is only a single police car in the entire southern Lapland.
But övervåldets days are numbered, believed Bilan Osman, because it is no longer go unnoticed.
the Phenomenon of ”copwatch”, that the citizens keep tabs on the police with the help of your mobile movies, has long existed in the united states and the united kingdom.
Now that this practice reached Sweden, and it is very gratifying, ” said Leandro Schclarek Mulinari, phd student in criminology at Stockholm university.
Emma Power. Photo: Hampus Andersson
the Suburb against violence noted that not all police and not all the stewards are exercising the excessive use of force, ”but enough for us to see a pattern.”
llyas Hassan from the same organization said:
” We have contributed to this welfare state, and we expect to be treated equally.
On the makeshift stage at the Kungsträdgårdens large fountain appeared also young förortspoeter, who read the newly written lyrics about the vulnerability of people with dark skin color.
who thought it was good that the recent cases of violence from the guards now aware of:
– the Abuse of power has been a problem for a long time.
His friends, Martin Ojeka and Johar Atta agreed.
” Everyone says that this will not result in anything, but I think that even the slightest activity will help, said Martin Ojeka.
Just beside it was André Jönsson and True Kami Shirazi.
” We are here to check for equality. Assault has become far too common. I myself am from Malmö, where you see it far too often, said Mr Jönsson.
in the Park was organized similar manifestations in Gothenburg and Malmö.
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