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Drugs and Crime. Global Drugs Editor, VICE News. Specialist Journalist of the Year. Orwell Prize winner. Co-author of the book 'Narcomania'. Views my own.
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Please watch this video, where Renell spoke to Kay Rufai
@universoulbrand
about his life and his hopes and fears. “People are dying out there…and it’s young black boys just like me…we deserve a chance," he said.
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* 🆃🆁🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁 🆆🅰🆁🅽🅸🅽🅶* I am really sad and heartbroken. A few days ago, I received a phone call many of us never ever want to receive, especially parents of Black boys and/or those of us whose work posits us as pseudo kin to Black boys. youtu.be/enHMAGD9R2A
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Almost exactly this time last week a 16 yr old schoolboy, Renell Charles, was stabbed to death in my local streets in Walthamstow. Another victim of a highly lethal culture of petty beefs and retribution among disadvantaged young people in London 🧵 1/4
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Why do I have to see Trump’s stupid face and arms again and hear his nonsense voice again? Why is he still here?
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🚨 Another VICE scoop from Joseph Cox Inside the Italian Mafia’s Encrypted Phone of Choice
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New: today we pull back the curtain on one of the most important tech companies for organized crime called No. 1 BC We found its the encrypted phone of choice for the Italian mafia. Former sellers, industry sources, sensitive docs "Big on the market" vice.com/en/article/88x
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New: this is wild. Frank Ocean fans were in a frenzy over newly leaked music from the reclusive artist. The leaker sold some tracks for thousands of dollars to collectors. But most were fake, AI-generated. Communities now in disarray over what to trust
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Scammer Made Thousands Selling 'Leaked' Frank Ocean Tracks That Were Fake, AI-Generated
Frank Ocean communities on Discord and leaked music forums were in a frenzy over newly discovered music from the reclusive artist. It turns out most of it was AI-generated and sold by a scammer.
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And an interview with Jermaine's father this week
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A teenager who murdered 14 year old Jermaine Cools has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 19 years - after a landmark hearing at the Old Bailey - the first involving a youth defendant which has been televised. @RiaChatter reports. channel4.com/news/teenager-
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Last year
@RiaChatter
did some quality reporting on the aftermath of Jermaine's death
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Ria Chatterjee
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We’re reporting from West Croydon all week as a community prepares to commemorate a teenager who was murdered. You’ll hear from youth workers, cafe owners, undertakers, teachers, police. And young people who say they feel trapped & forced into certain actions in order to survive. twitter.com/itvlondon/stat…
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Daily Mail cynically using the brutal street killing of a 14 year old child to push its cranky 'cannabis causes murder' agenda. Cannabis had nothing to do with this death. Disgusting.
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Helen Nianias
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"Our people look at us like we are dirt but it can happen to any one of us." Incredible insight into an overlooked community, perfectly edited by
@Narcomania
. I can't think of many other publications that would give this topic so much care and attention
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‘I’ve Lost Everything’: The Hidden World of Britain’s Pakistani Heroin Users
British Pakistani heroin users tell VICE News they've been shunned by their families and are too afraid to get help.
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Paul Charman
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Excellent example of why
@VICENews
must survive. Digs deep and asks questions MSM so often ignores.
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What is it that makes British Pakistanis from religiously conservative homes end up addicted to heroin and shunned by their family and community? VICE News has been speaking to heroin users in Bradford to find out. 🧵1/8
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As it happens
@Moqasim83
and I have collaborated over the last 6 years on a load of articles looking at gangs and drugs in Britain’s Pakistani community, which despite its 1.5m population, has been little investigated in terms of crime culture.
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Their stories, told for the first time, reveal how the area’s heroin trade has seeped out to impact the most vulnerable people in the wider community, whose addictions are made worse by a conspiracy of silence.
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Over the last two years, criminologist
@Moqasim83
, awarded an MBE earlier this year for his ground-breaking work on drug dealers and gangs among Britain’s Pakistani community, has been speaking to people like Alya about their day to day lives.
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Alya is one of many British Pakistani heroin users who exist largely under the radar because they’re too ashamed to seek help from drug treatment services and are shunned into silence by their own communities.
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“What do I have? Nothing, my kids are in care, my family don’t want anything to do with me, I have no real friends, everyone that sees me thinks I’m some sort of scumbag. This is not a life I want to live anymore.”
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“Alya” started using heroin when she was 23 after a forced marriage turned violent. A British Pakistani woman from the West Yorkshire city, her family sent her to be exorcised by a spiritual healer.
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What is it that makes British Pakistanis from religiously conservative homes end up addicted to heroin and shunned by their family and community? VICE News has been speaking to heroin users in Bradford to find out. 🧵1/8
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