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[baepsrae]

His name was George Nkencho. This should not have happened. Don't let this go. Say his name.

Link to resources and places to donate to support BLM in Ireland

#george nkencho #say his name #justice for george nkencho #black lives matter #ireland #acab

[thewatsonbeekeepers]

I realise that what’s been going on in Ireland is trending at the moment with the police murder of George Nkencho, and though I normally use tumblr as a ‘destress’ I think it’s really important to explain the situation in Ireland to everyone. Cn: racial violence and murder, paedophilia mention For context, I’m white Irish, but I hope this post can be useful to us/uk centric tumblr.

The African Advocacy Network Ireland called George Nkencho’s killing by police an execution (x) and as an Irish person, it’s difficult to see otherwise. Irish police (gardaí) are almost all unarmed. We call them the garda síochána - literally, the guardians of the peace. I can’t remember the last time I heard of the gardaí killing anyone. When I go abroad to the UK or the rest of Western Europe, I am always incredibly freaked out by the armed police everywhere - and that’s not even as bad as America. So in Ireland, having the armed section of the police go after a mentally ill black man is really not normal. It is already suggesting an act of violence that our police normally are not allowed to commit.

It’s worth noting that whilst our police are not armed, they are still as complicit in state violence as in any other country - ACAB still applies in Ireland on a huge level. Police are complicit in deporting immigrants, in the mistreatment of those arrested, in the mistreatment of sex workers etc., and that should not be ignored. Our police also have a horrendous track record on corruption - our previous government nearly fell because a whistleblower on corruption in the police force was reported by the police as a paedophile and had his life destroyed. (x) The gardaí have a horrendous track record of closing ranks when an accusation is levelled and of doing anything they can to protect their own, and unfortunately Ireland is so small that institutions historically are capable of carrying out huge, cosy corruption. The gardaí are absolutely at the centre of this and this needs to be drawn attention to.

Ireland is more than 92% white, and only 1.3% black. (x) I don’t know a single non-white person in this country who does not feel constantly aware of their difference and constantly excluded. Again, being a small country does not help with this - the smallness of the country exacerbates how difficult it is to exist as a person of colour in Irish society, because everywhere you go there is a very homogenous, white, Catholic, Irish culture. I don’t want to say more on this because I don’t personally have experience of being black in Ireland, but I hope this contributes to your understanding of how clearly racially motivated Nkencho’s shooting was. The coincidence of the armed police (of which there are very few) going after a black man (who are statistically a huge minority) is really too much for me to buy given how endemic racism is in our country.

I also want fellow Irish people, if you’re reading this, to put pressure on the press. The Irish Times, one of the country’s main news sources, is very clearly coming out in favour of the gardaí here, and it’s not unfeasible to see the country’s elites (the same who fucked us over earlier this year in golfgate x) work with the government to smooth this over. Our government and their allies are a boy’s club, as golfgate proved. If you’re Irish and you’re able to, please go and protest - I can’t because I’m immunocompromised, but I will be writing to the government and to the Irish Times etc. - those of you who are not Irish, protesting embassies (safely) and writing to the press and to Irish government officials would be hugely helpful - please pretend to be Irish when you do this, otherwise they will ignore you. Please do not use template emails when writing to the government as our government filters them out!

Petition: https://www.change.org/p/department-of-justice-justice-for-the-unlawful-killing-of-george-nkencho-justiceforgeorge?recruited_by_id=95429be0-4b41-11eb-a239-2bc7a8cae2dd [please don’t donate to change.org!]

These are Irish organisations that really need your donations! I haven’t explained the other horrific racist apparatuses of the state because this isn’t the post for it, but Ireland has been condemned by the UN for the way it breaches human rights of asylum seekers, so these are all vital (x).

Irish Refugee Council, who support people seeking protection in Ireland

Doras, an independent NGO working to protect the rights of migrants in Ireland

Immigrant Council of Ireland, an independent law centre working to provide assistance to people from a migrant background and protect their rights

Migrants and Ethnic-minorities for Reproductive Justice (MERJ Ireland), an organisation of migrant women of colour actively campaigning for reproductive justice and for all and contributing to feminist discourse in Ireland

Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland, a platform for asylum seekers to seek justice, freedom and dignity for all asylum seeker

Email the Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee, here: [email protected]

Thank you for reading - I realise this is a long post. Please do dm me if you want any more info/resources - always happy to help.

#long post #blm #black lives matter #george nkencho #rest in power #say his name #cn racism #cn racial violence #cn paedophilia mention #acab #ireland #racism

[mybodyisnotwhole]

Yesterday (December 30th) George Nkencho, a black man, was shot and murdered by the gardaí. I'm not fully informed about the entirety of this situation but I know for sure that this did not have to happen. 15 gardaí apparently couldn't disarm a knife from somebody without the use of lethal force when numerous times in the past they have been able to do so safely. And whenever it did come to a point where they had to use guns they would shoot the person in the leg. This was an obvious act of racism and I'm not only disappointed with the gardaí, I'm disappointed with my country. The amount of racists on twitter saying that this doesn't have anything to do with race, that he deserved to be killed?? Like shut up, white men have done things just as bad as him and are still alive today. I know that what he was doing wasn't right, he shouldn't have been threatening people, but the gardaí could have easily de-escalated the situation without killing him.

#George Nkencho #an garda síochána #ACAB #all cops are bastards #BLM #black lives matter #justice for george Nkencho #i hope this helps spread awareness

[desertpups]

Just gonna pop this here to save time for those who seem confused over this, I’ve said nothing the police haven’t already stated. Much love!

(Andrew doesn't have time for people's bullshit. but seriously don't give them the attention they seem so desperate for.)

#hozier #andrew hozier byrne #george nkencho #ireland #twitter/

[sdmnluvs]

My heart is absolutely broken after what happened today. The guardaí should be ashamed of themselves! Irish people always like to say that we’re not a racist country but it’s time those same people take a proper look at themselves and the country we live in.

An Garda Síochána means “The guardian of the Peace” yet there was no peace today. I’m so unbelievably disgusted in our justice system. Living in a small parish in rural Ireland I believed stuff like this only happened in other countries. I was so devastatingly wrong 

#ireland #George Nkencho #he deserved better #i’m so disgusted #na guardai #I can’t even believe this #say his name

[fionnt21]

#rip #george nkencho #blacklivesmatter #justice #fuck the popo #Spotify

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[gwydionmisha]

#George Nkencho #Dublin #Police Murder #The Republic of Ireland #News

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‘Inexcusable’ delays as Gardai involved in George Nkencho’s fatal shooting unaware if they’ll be charged three years on | 0K510G1 | 2024-01-04 08:08:02 | January 04, 2024 at 09:08AM

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George Nkencho: Abike Demands Justice For A Nigerian Killed By Police In Ireland 

George Nkencho: Abike Demands Justice For A Nigerian Killed By Police In Ireland

George Nkencho: Abike Demands Justice For A Nigerian Killed By Police In Ireland Abike Dabiri and Nigerians in Diaspora Commission have reacted to the death of a Nigerian man, George Nkencho, who was reportedly killed by the police in Ireland. Here is a press statement by Nigerians in Diaspora Commission addressing the killing of George Nkencho. PRESS STATEMENT DABIRI-EREWA DEMANDS JUSTICE FOR…

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[an-diabhal]

a 27 year old black man was shot dead in Ireland on 30/12/2020.

Here is RTÉ’s article on it: https://www.rte.ie/news/crime/2020/1230/1186988-shooting/

Police are supposed to protect citizens regardless of whether or not they’ve committed a crime. Police are not executioners.

Twelve armed Gardaí couldn’t de-escalate this situation, despite the fact that any search for “gardaí” + “knife” will provide you with plenty of incidents where armed white men were fined (fines were as low as €25), arrested peacefully, or given community service sentences for crimes similar to this man’s. Five shots were fired and he was hit three times.

According to Gardaí, non-lethal force was “unsuccessful”, however this raises many questions about their level of training and competence.

His name was George Nkencho. He was mentally ill. He was Black. He was shot dead.

In Ireland no crime results in a death penalty, but he is dead.

A 13 second video of his murder is being shared on social media. Please do not engage with the video or share it on any platform, as these videos are not only incredibly traumatising for Black people to see (particularly family/friends of his), they desensitise the rest of us to violence. We should never become apathetic about this.

Instead, as the investigation into his death continues, raise awareness about how racial stereotypes affect internal biases in various organisations including police forces, and how mentally ill minorities are stigmatised.

I am not aware of any particular petitions or fundraisers to help funeral costs, so if you know of any please let me know.

Anti-racism supports are available if you wish to help change things, which I hope you do:

The Irish Network Against Racism: https://inar.ie/

Doras: http://doras.org/

#blm #blm ireland

[thewatsonbeekeepers]

George had a knife, stabbed someone and then tried to stab the police. They tried to subdue him with non lethal methods but couldn’t. Don’t you believe that to be relevant to your post?

I don’t normally answer asks like this, but I’m going to because it actually helps me to make a very important point. This ask is referencing a post I made here (x) about the murder of George Nkencho, a mentally ill black man, in Dublin.

George Nkencho had a knife and had injured someone with it. This is absolutely correct. However, the gardaí (Irish police) then tasered him twice and shot him five times. The gardaí are trained to shoot to incapacitate where they need to, not to kill - shooting anyone five times, as a law enforcement official, is disproportionate. Furthermore, as made clear in the original post, armed gardaí being deployed anywhere is an indication that there is an intent to use violence way before the encounter, as armed police are not the norm in Ireland. Protestors have been comparing the disproportionate use of force in this shooting to the multiple knife attacks in Dublin by white Irish people in recent months where the perpetrator has been brought in unharmed (x).

However, I didn’t mention these things in my original post deliberately, and that is because I am disgusted by the way black people’s actions are constantly discussed in discourse around black lives matter as though they may have deserved what happened to them. We’ve seen this with alarming levels of misinformation about Nkencho in Ireland this week (that he had convictions or was known to gardaí or in gangs, which are all false) but also in discourse in America - my first engagement with BLM was when I was a young teenager when Mike Brown was killed, and people claimed that he shouldn’t have committed a crime, even though all he had done was steal cigarettes. Fundamentally, black people do not have to be paragons to deserve not to be targeted by the state. The only situation in which the victim’s actions are relevant is a kill-or-be-killed situation, which this clearly was not because of the five shots situation - other than that, we are blaming black victims for the actions of their white murderers by focusing the attention on what they did to ask to be shot. In many ways, this mimics victim-blaming discourse around rape trials. So I am fully aware of what happened with Nkencho, and I hope you can see that the use of force was disproportionate - but fundamentally if you believe in the abolition of the death penalty, prison system and police force (as I do) then you must be aware that we tread a dangerous line when we point at an individual and say “they didn’t deserve to die” because of their behaviour, because it implies that somebody does. And actually, the state has committed a murder here - let’s look at their actions.

#blm #asks #tw racism #tw police brutality #ireland #tw rape mention

[desertpups]

I’ve removed Twitter from my devices for the moment but while I’m here, I know it’s been an awful couple weeks and if I was to say anything..

My heart goes out to folks in the States

watching what l'm sure was a painful

display of a very real and very toxic

political force making its presence felt. It

would be churlish of me to comment on

white nationalist and neo-fascist activity

in the US when Ireland has it's own active

elements organising only last week to

spread lies about the late George

Nkencho, a man with documented mental

health difficulties who lost his life at the

hands of a Gardaí response. The criminal

investigation into the death of George

Nkencho is to be welcomed, but

regardless of how it turns out, this man

was completely and utterly failed in his

need for help. My heart breaks for his

family and the loved ones he leaves

behind, I cannot imagine the grief and

trauma they are left with and I hope the

family are offered the closure and justice

they are due.

I would make an appeal to my fellow

members of Ireland's white settled

community to take very seriously the

efforts that were made online to spread

lies about George Nkencho and attack his

family in the aftermath of this horrible

event. Elaborately constructed false info

was spread by a committed group of

racist agitators for the purposes of

provoking tensions along the lines of

ethnicity and race. Until we as a national

(and global) community take seriously the

growing threat of neo-fascism and white

supremacy and bring ourselves to

investigate our own unobserved ethno-

nationalistic sentiments this problem will

only worsen with time. It can't be left to

Ireland's black citizens and people of

colour to fend off the injustice of racial

hatred. Its something that is enabled by,

takes root in, and is enacted by elements

within our own community, and it is that

very community which has the political

representation and collective power to

address and disassemble it.

We all want to live in a country we can be proud of, and we all have a role to play in that. I fear

something dreadful is coming if we can't

bring ourselves to address this issue.

Anyway much love

Andrew x

#hozier #andrew hozier byrne #twitter/

[baepsrae]

Hun I am so sorry you got all these racist clowns clogging up your notifications

Justice for George, Ireland has the highest or second highest number of racist hate crimes in Europe (Ireland is 13% vs the European average of 5%)

As an Irish traveller, anyone who says Ireland isn't a racist country simply have been ignoring it, benefitting from it, or participating in it.

I love my country and I am ashamed of what has happened.

Thank you ugh but at least I only have to deal with them like this and not daily, I'll take the bs that comes with speaking the truth. And YES you're absolutely right! Racism and xenophobia are so prevalent here, people are wilfully blind to it! I'm so sorry for the way the traveling community is treated y'all fuckin deserve better, and so do people in dp and all poc in Ireland. Especially so did George Nkencho. Justice for George Nkencho.

#all cops are bastards including the gardaí!