This summer, Lee Lawrence took his two daughters to a Black Lives Matter protest at the US embassy in London. “We were looking at the banners remembering George Floyd and other police deaths in the US,” he says. “Then we saw their grandmother’s name.” Among the placards held by protesters was one bearing the name ‘Cherry Groce’, remembering the 37-year-old mother shot and paralysed by a British police officer in 1985, sparking the second Brixton riot. “I took my daughters to the protest because I wanted them to understand who we are and where we’ve come from,” Lee, 46, says. “I can’t believe this is still going on three decades after my mum was shot.” Among the words on the banners, was the slogan “I can’t breathe”.
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