Event : Remembering Joy Gardner - Black Lives Matter 1993
source: Black History Walks
first published: July 2026
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Joy Gardner was killed on 28 July 1993 when police raided her home.
This film, talk, and Q&A reflects on her life and legacy 34 years later.
Rare public screening of Justice Denied (1995) on the anniversary of the death of Joy Gardner (July 1993) with the family of Joy Gardner, director Ken Fero and update about the Peoples Tribunal's actions.
Read more about the People's Tribunal on Police Killings here >
Myrna Simpson, the mother of Joy Gardner, who was slain by the police, outlines her experience of their use of overwhelming force.
On the 28th July 1993 Joy Gardner died when police and deportation officers used force to restrain her, tying her with a body belt and ankle straps and gagging her mouth with thirteen feet of tape. There was a national outcry when people heard how Joy had died.
'Justice Denied ' hears from members of her family about Joy's death, reports on the reactions to it in the Black community, examines two other deaths related to immigration control, that of Kwanele Siziba and Joseph Nnalue, and asks what are the political circumstances that allow these deaths to happen.
The film follows the struggle of Joy's family in their fight for justice and for the truth to be exposed. The film examines how the media carried out a character assassination of Joy in order to justify the way in which she was killed and how this fed into a widespread cover-up.
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