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Earlier this week the Sheku Bayoh Public Inquiry recommenced, with this phase examining the extent to which race was a factor in the events leading up to and following Sheku’s death – particularly the actions of the police officers involved.
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The Public Inquiry started in 2022, seven years after Sheku Tejan Bayoh (31) died in Kirkaldy, mere minutes after encountering seven police officers from the then Fife Constabulary.
Black death is often spectacularised, particularly in circumstances which involve state brutality and violence. Sheku’s life has been examined, the lives of his loved ones turned inside and out, and his death has been relived in public since 2015.
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