source: The Decolonial Centre

published: 14 December 2025

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In this powerful episode of Decolonial Dispatch, host Mohammed dives into the critical issue of racism and police brutality, ignited by a recent BBC Panorama expose on police misconduct. Special guest Marcia Rigg, a key figure in the  United Families & Friends Campaign, shares her deeply personal story about the tragic death of her brother Sean Rigg in police custody.

The Decolonial Centre (DcC) are a political education platform committed to spreading anti-colonial and decolonial perspectives on history, social theory, and current affairs. Operating from the historical epicentre of colonialism in Britain, the DcC is global majority-led and a project of the Pluto Educational Trust.

The episode covers the broader implications of institutional racism within the UK's law enforcement agencies, highlighting systemic failures and ongoing struggles for justice.

DcC‘s aim is to produce the definitive podcast series that brings together the anti-racist left. In a kitchen-table, bread and butter style approach. Each week they discuss one of the world’s most pressing global issues and with voices from the left who are championing change. They invite guests whose work, insights, or lived experiences resonate with the topics and themes being explored that week.

For one recently released episode, DcC invited Marcia Rigg, who spoke about the recently held remembrance procession in October honouring all those whose lives have been lost at the hands of police violence, the colonial genealogy of policing and the transformative justice in the wake of ongoing crackdowns in Britain.

The United Families & Friends Campaign is a coalition of families and friends of those that have died in the custody of police and prison officers as well as those who are killed in secure immigration units and psychiatric hospitals.

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