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When asked about 'defunding the police' former Met Police superintendent Leroy Logan tells campaigner Emmanuel Onapa, on 5 Live Drive, "the term is not useful, I think the concept they have in mind is definitely useful"

Black Lives Matter was founded in the US in 2013 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin.

The group has campaigned on a number of issues since, but rose to global prevalence again after the killing in the US of George Floyd, with multiple protests against racism in the UK under its banner.

It has made calls in the US to defund the police - arguing police departments' budgets should be slashed and funds diverted to social programmes to avoid unnecessary confrontation and heal the racial divide.