PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter campaign (3 June 2020)

That this House stands in solidarity with the friends, family and community of George Floyd in Minneapolis; recognises that George Floyd is tragically another name on the long list of unarmed Black men that have died in police custody in the United States of America (USA); notes that state-sanctioned racism is not solely an issue in the USA but also one that we experience here in the UK; acknowledges that Black people suffer disproportionately from police use of force, are more likely to receive harsher sentences than their white counterparts, and are over-represented in the prison population; is alarmed that between 1995 and 2015, regardless of the circumstances, no police office was prosecuted over the death of a Black person in custody; believes that Black Lives Matter; supports the Black Lives Matter campaign; calls on the UK Government to challenge institutional racism and address the racial disparities in our criminal justice system.

Sponsored by:
Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour)