The WEP posted a Tweet on the Kaba case in order to highlight racism in the Met.
Are you a member of WEP? Or a self-elected spokesperson?
My view is that the WEP tried to leap on a bandwagon to make themselves look good. That's it. No fact checking. Purely to keep themselves relevant. It's backfired on them.
The WEP has no substantial history of solid campaigning for women who are also black or brown. They've a picture of the Biba and Nicole demonstration on their website. WEP were not at the forefront of that at all, but using their images. Shameful.
It's all about WEP and virtue signalling. Not about hard grassroots graft. Nothing about women and girls caught up in these gangs and how to help them, nor the women exploited and abused by the likes of Kaba and his associates. Nothing about the Africans in London persecuted by them, nor the black run businesses handing over protection money to them.
Sound bites and tokenism with the WEP. I'm incredibly disappointed in them. I looked at their website to see what reports/ in depth research they've done. Tumbleweed. All mouth and no deeds. They couldn't organise their way out of a paper bag in support of women.
Of course institutional racism needs rooting out in the Met still. Decades on from the MacPherson review it's still there, festering, along with misogyny and misogynoir. There are plenty of examples. Kaba's death is not one of them.
It's all unsubstantiated rhetoric, with an invented saintly background for him, and contempt for a jury of twelve members of the public. Twelve ordinary people unknown to each other or the officer. A jury privy to more information during the weeks of the trial, than anyone posting here disagreeing with their verdict.
It's more than reasonable for members of FWR to question why the WEP are so keen to bandwagon a man with a history of violence ( including his former pregnant partner) when there are many issues affecting women, including because of their ethnicity, which the WEP could have been raising awareness around.
Criticising the WEP for a knee jerk sound bite, based on untruths, in supporting a violent male criminal,whilst ignoring the many struggles of women black and brown, as highlighted upthread, is NOT sealioning on the FWR board. It's fair comment.