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A POLICE officer who punched and kicked a teenage boy while restraining him will keep his job despite being found guilty of misconduct.
Sussex Police constable Daniel Patterson pushed on the schoolboy’s pressure point behind his ear five times while he and three other officers arrested him.
A misconduct hearing was told that the boy was lying face down on the floor with his arms underneath his body, so he posed a minimal threat.
The Morning Star here publishes a speech that would have been given by Stop the War officer and longtime NEU and NUT activist Alex Kenny on the eve of the verdicts handed to Chris Nineham and Ben Jamal this week. He also explains why he couldn’t give it
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
When Patterson and Liston met in the ring in 1962, it was more than a title bout — it was a collision of two black archetypes shaped by white America’s fears and fantasies, writes JOHN WIGHT