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On 22 November 2001, a 25-year-old black man, Ricky Bishop, died in the Brixton police station. Police allege that he died after swallowing drugs. On 25 November, Joseph Crensil, belived to be a Ghanaian asylum seeker, fell from a third floor window after police and immigration officers went to his house in order to detain him.
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