INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY
Saturday 16th March 2025
This International Day Against Police Brutality, we stand in solidarity with those resisting police violence across the world. Police brutality is not an exception —it is the norm, an extension of their everyday exercise of power and violence. From violent arrests to unnecessary, high-risk, often fatal, pursuits, stop and search, surveillance, ‘gangs’ policing, use of taser, and harassment, policing harms our communities daily, here in Greater Manchester, and around the world.
Whilst commemoration of the day began in Canada and Switzerland, its message resonates globally. Policing is a tool of control and oppression. Our fight is international, because the harms of policing are felt everywhere.
To resist this system, we must organise, disrupt, and build alternatives. You can do this by supporting local police monitoring groups, supporting UFFC (United Families & Friends Campaign), building community and showing up for those who are subject to the harms of policing: being an active bystander when you witness police violence.
We oppose police violence today and everyday as we – alongside others in Manchester, the UK and globally – fight for a world where communities keep each other safe and no more lives are lost to, or harmed by, the police, prisons and other agents/agencies of state violence and injustice.