"The police shot my mother" - one man's fight for justice
November 5, 2025·37 min·3 clips
Lee Lawrence describes waking to find his mother shot by a police officer in their Brixton home in 1985.
As heard by us
A police shooting story that opens into Brixton, power, and the cost of not being heard.
The Crime Agents treats the shooting of Cherry Gross in Brixton as more than a case file. Lee Lawrence's memory gives the episode its weight, and the show stays at its best when it links Cherry's injury to the anger that spread through Brixton and to the larger fight over race,…
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You want a Brixton police-shooting story that turns into a wider fight for justice.
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