Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Newsletters
Sign in

Stafford Scott

Headshot of Stafford Scott

Stafford Scott is the director of Tottenham Rights and a guest professor at Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London

September 2022

  • Demonstrators march down Whitehall to Scotland Yard to protest the killing of Chris Kaba on September 10.

    double quotation markWe marched for Chris Kaba, as we marched for too many others killed at the hands of police. Enough is enough

    Stafford Scott
    The family of the 24-year-old deserve answers. So does the rest of the country facing brutal overpolicing, says Stafford Scott, director of Tottenham Rights

August 2021

  • Shooting in Tottenham Hale<br>Riot police stand in line as fire rages through a building in Tottenham, north London as trouble flared after members of the community took to the streets last night to demand “justice”, after Mark Duggan, 29, was shot dead by police on Thursday.

    double quotation markI saw what sparked the Tottenham riots – 10 years on, it could happen again

    Stafford Scott
    A decade after the killing of Mark Duggan, it’s clear the police have failed to learn vital lessons about excessive force, says activist Stafford Scott

June 2020

  • Graffiti in Shoreditch, east London, reads 'RIP George Floyd, RIP Mark Duggan'

    double quotation markThe police say they support Black Lives Matter. Tell that to people in Tottenham

    Stafford Scott
    The investigation into Mark Duggan’s death may reopen, thanks to new research into deaths in custody, says the activist Stafford Scott

January 2019

  • East London jobcentre

    Crime and fear
    double quotation markThe Met’s Gangs Matrix is racist policing in its purest form

    Stafford Scott
    The database fuels the violence it purports to be trying to stop. It needs a complete overhaul

December 2018

  • Stafford Scott: ‘A big scary black man – that’s what police see.’

    Bias in Britain
    double quotation markHumiliated and degraded: this is how black men are treated by police

    Stafford Scott, as told to Poppy Noor
    I was handcuffed and detained after I was assaulted. Why? ‘He’s bigger than us,’ they said

September 2017

  • Protesters outside Stoke Newington police station, July 2017

    double quotation markBlame the Home Office if another black person dies in police custody

    Stafford Scott
    Amber Rudd should be holding the police to account instead of covering their backs by not releasing this critical report, says racial equality consultant Stafford Scott

December 2015

  • Jermaine Baker shooting, London, Britain - 18 Dec 2015<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Matthew Chattle/REX/Shutterstock (5498509g) Floral tributes at the spot in Wood Green, where Jermaine Baker was shot dead Jermaine Baker shooting, London, Britain - 18 Dec 2015 Father-of-two Jermaine Baker, 28, from Tottenham, north London, who has been identified as the man shot dead by police during an alleged attempt to free convicts from a prison van outside Wood Green Crown Court on Friday. He was shot dead in a car positioned outside the court building. The incident has now opened a homicide inquiry and IPCC investigators are appealing for witnesses.

    double quotation markWhat do police know about Jermaine Baker’s killing that we don’t?

    Stafford Scott
    An officer has been arrested in an unprecedented move. Transparency has improved, but too many in this part of London have been killed by police – answers must come swiftly

March 2015

  • A policeman in front of a burnt-out shop in Tottenham after riots sparked by Mark Duggan’s death

    double quotation markThis Mark Duggan whitewash should be the death knell for the IPCC

    Stafford Scott
    The police watchdog’s latest report is little more than a rehash of the police version of events. The organisation is clearly unfit for purpose

April 2014

  • Police at Broadwater Farm in 1985

    double quotation markPC Blakelock murder trial: the case against Nicky Jacobs was flawed from the start

    Stafford Scott
    Stafford Scott: As in the Tottenham Three trial in 1987, the prosecution was driven by desperation. But this time, thankfully, justice was done

January 2014

  • Simon Pemberton illustration 10012014

    double quotation markThis perverse Mark Duggan verdict will ruin our relations with the police

    Stafford Scott

    Stafford Scott: Mark Duggan was demonised by the police and the facts of his killing ignored. It seems the marginalised live in a parallel, unjust universe

July 2013

  • Cynthia Jarrett

    double quotation markPC Blakelock: black people are waiting for justice too

    Stafford Scott

    Stafford Scott: Tottenham police officers were involved in the deaths of Cynthia Jarrett, Joy Gardner, Roger Sylvester and Mark Duggan. But no one has yet been convicted

February 2013

  • Kevin Hutchinson-Foster court case

    double quotation markGun conviction only raises more questions over Mark Duggan's death

    Stafford Scott

    Stafford Scott: Hutchinson-Foster has been jailed for supplying a gun, but if police had done their duty, Duggan might still be alive

October 2012

  • double quotation markMark Duggan's family have had to endure yet again

    Stafford Scott

    Stafford Scott: That the coverage of Kevin Hutchinson Foster's trial focused on Duggan was helpful for the police but traumatic for the family

August 2012

  • bruno hall

    double quotation markMark Duggan: the lessons the police haven't learned

    Stafford Scott
    Stafford Scott: A year after the killing of Mark Duggan, his family and community still feel ignored and marginalised

April 2012

  • Mark Duggan

    liberty central
    double quotation markMark Duggan shooting: give the IPCC the powers it needs to investigate

    Stafford Scott
    Stafford Scott: The police watchdog has still not been able to interview the officers involved in the operation that sparked last summer's riots

March 2012

  • Protesters Riot In Tottenham

    double quotation markThe shooting of Mark Duggan must be investigated openly

    Stafford Scott

    Stafford Scott: The IPCC says sensitive evidence of police decision-making may prevent an open hearing. What are the police trying to hide?

December 2011

  • Police officer sets up a cordon around a burnt-out shop

    Out of the Ashes by David Lammy – review

    David Lammy has not grasped the scale of the community's mistrust of the police and the judicial system in his analysis of the August riots, says Stafford Scott

November 2011

  • The funeral of Mark Duggan, Tottenham, London.

    double quotation markThe investigation of Mark Duggan's death is tainted. I want no part in it

    Stafford Scott

    Stafford Scott: The IPCC inquiry into the shooting of Mark Duggan is shoddy. We need a new body willing and able to investigate the police

October 2011

  • The Tottenham riots, August 2011.

    double quotation markThe voices of Tottenham are being marginalised

    Stafford Scott
    Stafford Scott: Slogans and stickers will not help the area recover. Calls for justice must be heard – otherwise we'll see a repeat of the riots

August 2011

  • Burnt out Carpetright Tottenham

    double quotation markIf the rioting was a surprise, people weren't looking

    Stafford Scott

    Stafford Scott: Yes, indefensible – but not unexpected. Clear signs of deep problems in our youth were ignored as being a black problem

Explore more on these topics