This man died after being restrained by police. These same words were uttered two years later by George Floyd whose death sparked outrage on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK if you’re black, you’re more than twice as likely to die as a white person in police custody. Panorama investigates unanswered questions in two British deaths, and in one, reveals new allegations of police cover-up. Panorama: I Can’t Breathe: Black & Dead in Custody, BBC 2021
They were hunting the Taliban in Afghanistan. Coalition troops raided thousands of homes. Tonight, the SAS death squads that arrived in the night. We reveal secret killings by British special forces. People shot dead after surrendering. Evidence of executions. And cover-ups by the men in charge. Panorama: SAS Death Squads Exposed: A British War Crime? Richard Bilton reporting, BBC 2022
For Australians, it’s a national scandal … The Australians worked closely with UK and American special forces. ibid.
We have eye-witness testimony about executions. ibid.
Cameron Doomadgee died in a police cell on Palm Island off the coast of Townsville today. The 36-year-old man was arrested for public drunkenness. The Tall Man, Sky Crime 2020
Bruising to back of head, abrasion on right eyebrow, bruising to jaw, ruptured portal vein, four broken ribs, ruptured liver … ibid.
They [US] called it enhanced interrogation, and they did it by waterboarding Zubaydah 83 times, by repeated smashing him against the wall, and locking him naked in a freezing box for weeks at a time. The CIA videotaped the interrogations but later destroyed the tapes. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head VI Are We a Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer? ***** BBCiplayer 2021
Baltimore: the heroin capital of America. In 2015 Freddie Gray died in police custody sparking riots across the city. Looters raided dozens of pharmacies hunting for synthetic opioids. Two years on, an overdose epidemic is raging. Dope s2e2: Once You See It, You Can Never Unsee It, Netflix 2018
Where Does He Belong? The battle over Elian Gonzalez sparks a debate about custody laws and what’s best for kids. 537 Votes, Time magazine, Sky Documentaries 2020
Laurie Lee - Arena: Wisconsin Death Trip 1999 - Weird or What? TV - Tommy Cooper - Thomas Hardy - Virginia Woolf -
She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve. Laurie Lee, Cider With Rosie
Mary Sweeney: Her uncontrollable mania for breaking windows. Arena: Wisconsin Death Trip, newspaper report, BBC 1999
Mary Sweeney, the schoolteacher known as the Wisconsin Window Smasher, has just completed tour of the principle towns and jails of the state. She claims to have destroyed $50,000’ worth of glass on her recent trip. ibid.
It began with two brothers ... On December 7th the Morenos were going about their daily routine. Their job as high-rise window washers was not without its dangers. Their day started cleaning the glass on an Upper East Side apartment building more than a hundred and twenty metres up ... From forty-seven storeys up the platform plummeted for nearly six seconds before it crashed on to the pavement ... Although one of the brothers had died the other was somehow miraculously breathing. Weird or What? Strange Survival
I went window shopping today! I bought four windows. Tommy Cooper
Something tapped on the pane of my room
When there was never a trace
Of wind or rain, and I saw in the gloom
My weary Beloved’s face. Thomas Hardy, Something Tapped
What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air. Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
This is the second floor of our notorious headquarters here in the centre of Milano, notorious following a sordid little incident which happened here a few days ago when an anarchist under interrogation on one of the upper floors fell through the window. Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo, rozzer, Youtube 1.14.39/Thames TV
It’s no use trying to pull the wool over my eyes, sonny. ibid.
You said, We were all having a jolly good time and he jumped out of the window. ibid. acting judge