Conduct Of Hackney Police Officers

EDM number 1340 in 1989-90, proposed by Brian Sedgemore on 24/07/1990.

That this House expresses its grave concern at the assault by Hackney police officers on two young boys, Keith Johnson and Ijah Anderson, on 1st July 1990 when investigating a broken car window; cannot believe the investigation of such a trivial offence could warrant one police officer hitting and clubbing one of the boys with a truncheon and another police officer terrifying the other boy that he leapt, in fear, fully clothed into the canal; notes that the families concerned are in a state of shock; believes that there should be an independent inquiry; and regrets that such conduct on the part of these police officers damages the reputation of the local police force.

This motion has been signed by a total of 5 MPs.