Posters for People’s Tribunal on Police Killings appear on Brixton bus stops
Throughout British history Black communities have fought in the streets and in the courts for the basic human right to live without fear of racial attacks. 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance continues to...
View ArticleAppeal after three year-old girl left seriously injured after an e-scooter...
Police are appealing for witnesses following a collision involving a three-year-old girl and an e-scooter in Myatt’s Field Park yesterday. The incident occurred at around 20.30hrs on Monday, 19 July...
View ArticleFatal stabbing close to Brixton tube station, Weds 21st July 2021
Lambeth Police have reported that a fatal stabbing took place tonight close to Brixton Underground Station around 8.15pm, with a crime scene still in place at 9.35pm. An Air Ambulance attended the...
View ArticlePolice appeal for witnesses after the shocking murder of Shane Jerome in...
Last week, Brixton was shocked when a young man was stabbed to death in the street close to the tube station. Shane Jerome, 23, tragically lost his life during a video shoot for the rapper Reefy when...
View ArticleLambeth Police authorise controversial Section 35 powers in Ferndale Ward in...
The Metropolitan Police have announced that a Section 35 has been authorised from 10.00 hours 24/08/21 until 09.59 hours on the 26/08/21 hours. A tweet by the Ferndale Police says that the order has...
View ArticleTeenager arrested after loaded firearm recovered in Coldharbour Lane, Brixton
The Met Police have released a statement about the loaded handgun recovered in Loughborough Junction on Weds, 25th August 2021: [Top picture: the recovered handgun. Above: the teenager is apprehended...
View ArticleStreatham MP calls for review of ‘dangerously counterproductive’ Stop and...
Streatham MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy has criticised stop and search after a 13-year-old boy came away from a Police encounter with cuts to his wrists and a swollen eye, calling the policy “discriminatory”...
View ArticleAnti social Clapham school children hit with McDonalds dispersal zone
Wandsworth police have been given additional powers in and around Clapham Junction following anti-social behaviour by schoolchildren outside a McDonald’s fast food restaurant. In a series of tweets,...
View ArticleBrixton street closed after multiple shots discharged – photos
Moorland Road by the junction with Coldharbour Lane in Brixton was closed by police last night after reports of multiple shots being discharged. An officer on the scene told Brixton Buzz that six...
View ArticleMultiple Brixton shops close down after warnings of ‘civil unrest in the...
Multiple shops on Brixton Road have closed down today after being sent warnings that there was ‘potential civil unrest in the area’ following the news of a proposed protest over the police shooting of...
View ArticleSouth London MPs call for suspension of Met officer who shot dead Chris Kaba
Streatham MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP and Harriet Harman MP, Member of Parliament for Camberwell and Peckham, have issued a statement calling for the immediate suspension of the police officer who shot...
View ArticleLambeth encourages use of dedicated reporting tool to report incidents...
Women experiencing intimidation or harassment whilst accessing abortion clinics in Lambeth, and anyone witnessing such behaviour, are being encouraged to use the council’s dedicated electronic...
View ArticlePolice called to large disturbance in Brixton McDonalds
These were the scenes outside Brixton McDonalds 20 minutes ago as a fight reportedly broke out between schoolgirls in the busy fast food restaurant. A large police contingent numbering over eight...
View ArticleHow to report a homophobic incident or hate crime – and get support – in Lambeth
With one in five LGBT people experiencing a hate crime or incident because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity in the last 12 months, it’s important to know how to report these...
View ArticleUpdate: two women dead and one critically injured after crush at Brixton...
Today (19th Dec 2022) it has been announced that a second woman has died after being injured in a terrifying crush at the Brixton Academy on Thursday night. Eyewitness reports and videos posted on...
View ArticleBrixton 02 Academy is to remain closed for a further three months after...
The Brixton 02 Academy is to remain closed for a further three months following the deaths of two people as a result of a deadly crush during a Asake concert in December. The concert weas abandoned...
View ArticleCentral Brixton closed down after major traffic incident, early Sunday...
Brixton Road was closed to traffic early this morning by the police after a serious incident involving a pedestrian and an N3 bus. According to eyewitnesses, the incident by the junction of Brixton...
View ArticleNo Justice, No Peace: workshop reflecting on deaths in custody at the 198...
Copwatch, a police monitoring and anti-police violence group working in the legacy of Tottenham Rights, The Monitoring Group, GLC groups etc, will be hosting a workshop in Railton Road this Sunday,...
View ArticleAlmost all of Lambeth is now under a Section 60 stop and search order until...
Lambeth police have announced that almost the entire borough has been placed under a Section 60 order from 1pm today (Mon 4th September) through to 4am tomorrow, Tues 5th September. The map tweeted...
View ArticleA further Section 60 stop and search order has been issued for Lambeth,...
Lambeth police have extended their Section 60 order for Lambeth, which originally ran from Monday afternoon, 4th Sept 2023. The extension has been authorised by Supt Cameron following a fatal stabbing...
View ArticleBrixton murder: huge knife seen in street as police forensic teams examine...
This is the scene in Coldharbour Lane tonight, as police forensic teams scour the street after a 22 year old man was stabbed to death in broad daylight. Pictured above is a huge knife seen discarded...
View ArticleMan arrested by detectives investigating the fatal stabbing in Brixton on...
The Met Police have arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of murder after yesterday’s shocking fatal stabbing of a 22 year old man in broad daylight on Coldharbour Lane, Brixton. In a statement...
View ArticleFour injured as gunshots fired in Coldharbour Lane on Sunday morning
The BBC is reporting that four people were injured early this morning after gunshots were fired in Coldharbour Lane. The BBC said: Metropolitan Police officers were called to Coldharbour Lane,...
View ArticleBrixton Water Lane closed as shots fired at Sainsbury’s store
Around 10pm last night, we heard reports that gunshots had been heard by the large Sainsbury’s store in Brixton, opposite the Hootananny venue on Brixton Water Lane. Brixton Water Lane has now been...
View ArticleMet Police launch investigation after a firearm was discharged in Adelaide...
Armed officers were called to Adelaide Close in Brixton yesterday after witnesses saw a gunman shoot at a group of boys from a car in a ‘drive-by’ style shooting. No arrests have been made yet. In a...
View ArticleGunshots heard at Jamaican Independence Day party in Coldharbour Lane,...
Around 12,15am this morning (Weds 7th Aug) gunshots were discharged in the direction of a Jamaican Independence Day party taking place on Coldharbour Lane, Brixton. The sound of the gunshots could be...
View ArticleAppeal to identify man after racist graffiti written on sign at Dulwich...
Police in Southwark have released an image of a man they want to identify after racist graffiti was repeatedly scrawled on a sign at Dulwich Hamlet Football Club. Between Sunday, 21 July and Friday, 9...
View ArticleCyclist dies in collision with lorry in Effra Road, Brixton
Yesterday afternoon, a cyclist in his 60s tragically died after a collision with a lorry in Brixton. Scotland Yard said they were called by the London Ambulance Service (LAS) at around 4.15pm on...
View ArticleLambeth Council announces initiative to address Brixton town centre social...
Lambeth Council say that they are leading on drug outreach and community support alongside a boosted Met Police service presence in Brixton town centre to tackle persistent anti-social behaviour which...
View ArticleJanet Alder – Defiance: Racial Injustice and Police Brutality – talk at...
From the sister of Christopher Alder, a damning account of injustice in the UK police system. Join Janet to discuss her new book, Defiance!, at the Brixton Library, Thurs 24th Oct 2024. The police...
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