Met Police

UK MUSIC NEWS: POLICE CANCEL GIGGS SHOW, RAPPER APOLOGISES TO FANS….

October 9, 2013

Last month it was announced that Giggs would be performing live in London. The police (who have been cancelling his shows for years) suddenly had a change of heart and he was now allowed to perform live. Giggs even went as far as to assure his fans that the show was definitely going ahead this month with their blessing. Today the rapper was informed that his show has been cancelled by the police. … I had a niggling feeling that this would […]

UK NEWS: OFFICIAL MIXTAPE AWARDS FOUNDER SPEAKS OUT AFTER POLICE SHUT DOWN CEREMONY / PLANS TO RESCHEDULE

April 6, 2012

Yesterday it was announced that the third annual Official Mixtape Awards ( due to take place last night in Watford) had been shut down by “our good friends” the police. Click HERE to find out why. Actor/rapper Snakey Man aka Trevor McDonald   spoke exclusively to OMA founder  Milton McClymont (on a phone with bad reception) who shared his thoughts on the matter. …. So the  ceremony has been rescheduled…. The police are ruthless and have the power to do as they […]

UK NEWS: METROPOLITAN POLICE SHUT DOWN OFFICIAL MIXTAPE AWARDS CEREMONY

April 5, 2012

The third annual Official Mixtape Awards  has been shut down by the Metropolitan Police. Organisers of the popular event tweeted, http://twitter.com/#!/OfficialOMAs/status/187871203027980288 http://twitter.com/#!/OfficialOMAs/status/187871455021768704 http://twitter.com/#!/OfficialOMAs/status/187871729601880064 http://twitter.com/#!/OfficialOMAs/status/187879349700145152 http://twitter.com/#!/OfficialOMAs/status/187879507821211648 http://twitter.com/#!/OfficialOMAs/status/187873389111812096 http://twitter.com/#!/OfficialOMAs/status/187881918304497664 Hello ppl should we reschedule or just announce the winners on line ? WHO WANTS A AWARD CEREMONY!… OMA's IS HERE STAY… — Mixtape Awards (@OfficialOMAs) April 5, 2012 The Metropolitan Police actually said ‘everyone in each category is a criminal and they shoot people’.  Folllowed by they are ‘acting on information they were given’. Did one of their police dogs bark that “information” to them? […]

UK NEWS: TODDLER TAKEN FROM POLICE STATION FOUND

December 20, 2009

Via BBC News An 18-month old girl who police mistakenly allowed to be taken by an impostor from a station has been found. Audrey Kessie Nyanor’s mother, Cynthia Boakye, 36, was arrested on Thursday in Southwark, south London, over alleged immigration offences. A woman claiming she was a friend of Ms Boakye went to Walworth police station and took the toddler. The child was found in Harlesden, north London. A woman, 31, has been arrested on suspicion of abduction. A Met spokesman said officers […]

UK NEWS: POLICE DEFEND BLACK MUSIC CONCERT CRACKDOWN

May 18, 2009

Via BBC News Police have defended their use of a controversial form that requires live music venues to hand over details of performers, promoters and fans. Form 696 has helped cut shootings and stabbings in and around London gig venues, the Metropolitan Police said. The Met introduced the risk assessment form to identify gigs where trouble might flare up, partly in response to black-on-black shootings. But it has been criticised for being heavy-handed and racially motivated. The Met said the form had […]

UK NEWS: MET POLICE HIT BY CLAIM IT OPERATED SEGREGATED VANS FOR BLACK AND WHITE OFFICERS

February 25, 2009

Via The Guardian An “apartheid” system of discrimination and racist bullying operated at a London police station, according to claims made yesterday on the tenth anniversary of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry report. An Asian police community support officer alleged that he and other ethnic minority officers were made to travel separately from white officers. Asad Saeed, who will make his claims at an employment tribunal tomorrow, told in legal documents how one officer ordered a black woman colleague to get out of […]