NEWS DESK + MICHAEL WALSH - 16^th July 2001

Are the police now anti-white? One has only to consider the likely consequences if in either of the following two cases, sadly typical of policing today the victims had been black. Had they been so would not the City of Liverpool have been razed to the ground?

The police would never have run amok wielding nightsticks through a black area; nor would they have shot down in cold blood a distressed mental patient had he been black. The victims in the following cases became so because they were white and they are as a community docile.

Is it now time for white people to take a leaf out of the Black man’s book, get off their knees and fight back?

On Thursday night last week 12^th July Andrew Kernan, 37, was cut down by police bullets. This likeable Liverpool man was suffering from a mild form of schizophrenia, quite a harmless medical condition in 95% of cases.

Andrew had enjoyed a perfectly normal childhood and developed his illness only when he was twenty-two years old. He had never been in trouble with the law; had never caused harm to himself or others. In fact he was well liked in his neighborhood. Local friends said they had never felt apprehensive in his company. He was just a happy-go-lucky individual who loved his pets, adored his sister and doted on her young son. He had recently become interested in computers and was attending a day course. Why then did Merseyside police shoot Andrew down in cold blood?

Andrew’s distressed mother, Marie Kernan, 59, described how her son had become agitated on the night he was shot by the police. She had called his uncle and aunt, Ted and Pauline Devlin telling them ‘Andrew was having a bad night.’

VICTIM’S MOTHER ORDERED OUTSIDE

The young victim’s uncle said: "We were trying to keep him calm but in the end I telephoned the police." Ted Devlin also called for the assistance of a person trained in treating mental health problems.

The police arrived mob-handed at the flat and the shot victim’s uncle described how he and Andrew’s mother were then ordered to leave their apartment. Now frightened and alone with six or seven police officers, Andrew Kernon visibly distressed at being parted from the comforting presence of his mother and uncle, grabbed a sword and managed to escape into the street outside.

Afterwards his uncle added: "There were six or seven police officers inside the flat. They should have been able to overpower him. When I was there I didn’t see any sword. I didn’t even know he had one until later on. It’s hard to imagine why they would do that to him."

The mentally ill man, now distressed and frightened, was being pursued by police officers spraying him with CS gas. By this time the street was cordoned off by up to thirty mostly armed adrenaline-surging police officers whom on past performance it might be assumed relished the prospect of a ‘turkey shoot’.

"MUM, MUM!" THEN TWO SHOTS RANG OUT

A police marksman then shot down Andrew Kernan like a dog while his family looked on. The young victim’s mother was watching from the police car she had been ordered in to. Today the first 100 metre long anti-police graffiti appeared on the street wall: "What is our society coming to when the police become judge and jury? – RIP"

The victim’s mother described the tragedy as it unfolded, how she had heard her son scream "Mum, mum!" Then the two shots rang out. Now she is demanding justice and feels vital questions surrounding her son’s death need to be answered. Her solicitor Rex Makin was less than optimistic. He said: "Police investigating police is unsatisfactory as the East Sussex case of James Ashley, another Liverpool man shot dead by the police, proved."

THE GENTLE GIANT

Mrs Kernan sobbed as she described events leading to her son being gunned down by Merseyside’s trigger-happy gung-ho armed police: Claiming she had been let down by her son’s psychiatric team at nearby Broadgreen Hospital she said: "He was my son, a gentle giant. Nobody deserves to be shot dead when they’re ill. I wouldn’t want anyone to go through the hurt I am feeling right now. I have looked after my son for thirty-seven years and now he is gone."

"YOUR SON HAS PASSED AWAY?"

On the night he was shot I had calmed him down and he was in his bedroom when the police arrived. They ordered me outside and I sat in the police car nearby. Then I heard Andrew. I heard him scream for his mother. I heard him scream, ‘Mum mum!’ And then came the gunshots. At the police station an officer told me he had ‘passed away.’

"Passed away!" I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, he had been shot dead. Andrew was an innocent man with no criminal record. He was sick, that’s all. "I can’t let this rest, what kind of mother would I be? He was my child, my baby, and I didn’t bring him into this world and care for him all his life for it to end like this."

Who now in the right mind (or wrong mind as this tragedy proves, will ever call the police for assistance?

RIOT POLICE RIOT

Liverpool recently revealed as the ‘White Pride City of Britain’ due to its self-imposed segregation of coloureds has nevertheless suffered widespread violence from a surprising quarter. A policeman psycho has been sacked for indiscriminately lashing out at white people during a police riot.

INDISCRIMINATELY BATON CHARGING MUMS AND DADS

The police constable from the city’s notorious Operational Support Group was found guilty of ‘baton strikes on members of the public’ and of ‘falsifying statements.’

Shockingly the city’s chief constable Norman Bettison, notorious for his part in the Hillsborough tragedy cover-up when 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death due to police negligence, refuses to identify the dropped cop.

The case relates to a riot two years ago when riot cops mustered to keep an eye on a summer afternoon’s city revellers and then panicked when ‘allegedly’ a stone bounced off one of their heavily-armoured vehicles.

Squads of heavily camouflaged cops poured from their vans. Racing across the city’s famous dolce vita café society the truncheon-wielding officers ran amok through Slater Street and down stylish Bold Street, and then into Lime Street, scattering shoppers and revellers alike with flailing night-sticks.

More than sixty people - a record – lodged complaints against the police; many of the victims of police violence suffered broken bones.

The Crown Prosecution Service claims that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute, due to the cops involved being unidentifiable and refusing to identify each other.

A BLACK DAY FOR THE PEOPLE OF LIVERPOOL

Chief Constable Bettison caved in under public outrage and mounted an official enquiry. Forty detectives were drafted in to question the fifty-nine uniformed culprits, most of whom are still ‘serving’ the community’.

Six officers, four police constables and two inspectors have been ‘disciplined.’ Little surprise that the police have earned the contempt of the public. As a footnote it is revealed that Liverpool Police’s most notable success has been to achieve the three-year target set by Jewish Home Secretary Jack Straw to recruit 15 policemen persons from the coloured community within 18 months.