2011 England riots riots as a role model to be applied to their political activities in Germany as well. The riots were described by one journalist as "the worst disturbances of their kind since the 1995 Brixton riots". Commentators likened the riots to the Broadwater Farm riot of 1985, during which a police officer, Keith Blakelock, was murdered. The disturbances were preceded by calls for better oversight of the Metropolitan Police, repeating observations which go back to the death of Stephen Lawrence and the New Cross Fire. In April 2011 there was a large nonviolent march to Scotland Yard as a result of
Martha Osamor, Baroness Osamor Youth Association Mothers' Project on the nearby Broadwater Farm housing estate. From 1986 to 1990 she served as a Labour Councillor representing the Bruce Grove Ward in the London Borough of Haringey. Following the Broadwater Farm riot Osamor and Dolly Kiffin organised the "first Civil Rights Demonstration ever held in Britain" on 3 October 1987 and produced a "Manifesto of the movement for civil rights and justice". She became a founding member of the Broadwater Farm Defence Campaign. Osamor was nominated by some branches within the Vauxhall Constituency Labour Party in the selection for a candidate at the by-election in