In silence, injustice grows and spreads like a pandemic. #Justice4LevisonNcube #EndPoliceBrutality This month of April at @ZimRightsLIVE we are observing four years since the killing of Levison Ncube in Mabuthweni on 6 April 2020. Levison succumbed to injuries after being assaulted by police officers for breaking lockdown rules. When the murder happened, we made so much noise at ZimRights. Around the same time, the movement, Black Lives Matter went global protesting the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in the United States of America (USA). I addressed a meeting that was attended by a group of Zimbabweans. When I asked if anyone recognised the name ‘George Floyd’, every Zimbabwean in the room knew that George Floyd was an African American who was killed in Minneapolis by a white police officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes while Floyd was handcuffed and lying face down on the street. They were outraged. I asked the same group if they recognised the name Levison Ncube. Silence. No one knew. And in that silence, injustice grows and spreads like a pandemic. I asked the question, “What do we need to do here in Africa, and in Zimbabwe to be precise, to make ordinary people angry about an act of injustice?” Read my reflections on this question here. zimrights.org.zw/police-brutali… And if you can, join our call for justice for Levison Ncube, and all other victims and survivors of police brutality. Our police can change. That change begins with us breaking the silence. (c) Picture Credit: Philemon Bulawayo
@dzikamaibere @ZimRightsLIVE @amnesty_zim @zppINFO @euinzim @ZimHRNGOForum @accountlabzw @USEmbZim Silence is the language of complicity. #EndPoliceBrutality #Justice4LevisonNcube