This officer is facing the extraordinarily unpopular task of policing a demonstration in support of the Newham Seven, asian youths arrested and charged after fighting white youths in a part of London notorious for racial attacks. I was told by a man who knows this officer, though I have no means of checking this, that even he actually likes this photograph - it shows what it was like to be a black police officer in London in 1985...27.04.1985