On October 3, 2003, a coroner’s court decided that Metropolitan police officers did unlawfully killed Roger Sylvester in St Anne's psychiatric hospital in Haringey, London, on January 1, 1999. As the law did not authorize Roger’s death, it was an extra-judicial killing.

Lynching is a form of extra judicial killing. It is a practice associated with the Ku Klan Klux in the southern United States. Lynching was in essence a response by southern racists to a misconceived loss of power following slave emancipation in 1866.

The Metropolitan police force feels a similar sense of powerlessness after the recommendations of the Macpherson Report, following its slapdash investigation into the 1993 racist murder of Steven Lawrence (1).

Since its publication in 1999, the Met’s propagandists have conducted a campaign against Macpherson’s recommendations by demonizing the people from whom Steven Lawrence descended, Jamaicans.

The Klan demonized black people as prelude to lynching them. Similarly, the Nazis made Jews hate figures as a lead up to their eventual persecution from 1933-45.

As it’s an open secret Nazi sympathisers and Klansmen and women staff the Metropolitan police force (2), is it time to take a leaf out of the Met propagandists’ handbook and label unlawful killing lynching?

Footnote:
1) The Guardian (20/12/ 2000) “Sudden care for our morale”

2) The Telegraph (26/10/2003) “Revealed: the race crimes detective who goes home to a Nazi shrine”