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two bunks in his cell; that in an age of extreme overcrowding in the country's lock--ups it was unusual, to say the least, that the other bunk should have been unoccupied, ensuring that there were no witnesses to the death except for prison officers; and that a nightmare was by no means the only possible explanation for the screams of a black man in the hands of the custodial authorities. In his concluding remarks, afterwards termed "inflammatory and unprofessional" by Inspector Kinch, Hanif linked the community liaison officer's words to those of the notorious racist John Kingsley Read, who had once responded to news of a black man's death with the slogan, "One down; one million to go." The crowd murmured and bubbled; it was a hot and malicious day. "Stay hot," Simba's brother Walcott cried out to the assembly. "Don't anybody cool off. Maintain your rage."
As Simba had in effect already been tried and convicted in
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