In order to protest racist violence and the impending tightening of asylum laws, around 80 people found a Resistance Initiative against Racismat the People’s House of Turkey. The initiative calls for streets and squares to be renamed after victims of racist violence: a street after Ramazan Avcı, who was a victim of racist violence, a square after Semra Ertan, who took her own life in protest against everyday racism, and a square after Kemal Altun, who took his own life because he was denied the right to asylum and was threatened with deportation.

Between late 1991 and 1994, police officers from Precinct 11 in St. Georg drove over 130 predominantly Black people, whom they believed to be dealers, to remote locations on the outskirts of the city or in the free harbor at night and abandoned them there. This practice was an abuse of an already questionable policy, the forced removal of undesirables from the city center. In the committee of enquiry into the Hamburg police scandal, witnesses reported several mock executions. Black people were forced to undress and kneel, then an unloaded gun was held to their heads.

Police officers from Precinct 11 force six black men to undress, lock them in a cell, and then spray tear gas into the cell. This assault by a police officer was made public during the Hamburg police scandal in 1994.

Innensenator Werner Hackmann tritt angesichts zahlreicher Berichte über rassistisch motivierte Polizeigewalt zurück. Ein Polizist, der die Vorfälle meldete, wird am gleichen Tag mit dem Tode bedroht und seine Ex-Frau antisemitisch beleidigt. Infolge des Hamburger Polizeiskandals richtet die Hamburgische Bürgerschaft einen Untersuchungsausschuss ein.

Der parlamentarische Untersuchungsausschuss zum Hamburger Polizeiskandal legt nach mehr als zweijähriger Arbeit einen Bericht vor. Über 100 Zeug*innen sagten in dem Ausschuss über rassistisch motivierte Demütigungen, Misshandlungen und Gewalt durch Polizeibeamt*innen sowie rassistische und extrem rechte Einstellungen bei der Hamburger Polizei im Zeitraum von 1989 bis 1994 aus. Ein Polizist führte zwei Jahre lang eine illegale Kartei mit Fotos und Personalien von Schwarzen Menschen.

During an event at the Police Academy on Holocaust Memorial Day, a chalkboard was vandalized with swastikas and racist slogans. At the time of the incident, only police and cadets at the academy had access to the room.

Four Black people, including a seven-month-old baby, are racially abused and attacked by neo-Nazi skinheads on their way to a New Year’s Eve party. Neo-Nazi Marco G. shoots with a gas pistol and narrowly misses the 20-year-old mother and her baby. Despite the fact that G. had committed the same offense on New Year’s Eve of the previous year, and that he had several previous convictions for extreme right-wing offenses, the public prosecutor’s office does not issue an arrest warrant on the grounds that it was possible that the perpetrator did not intend to harm anyone.

The 19-year-old Nigerian Achidi John (born Michael Paul Nwabuisi) dies after being forcibly administered emetics at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in order to seize drugs he was suspected of having ingested. In 2006, the European Court of Human Rights declared the administration of emetics to be torture.

21-year-old Gambian Yaya Jabbi dies in custody after police arrest him for possession of 1.65 grams of marijuana. The Hamburg justice authorities classify his death as a suicide. His relatives, friends, and activists from the Initiative in Memory of Yaya Jabbi doubt this assertion.

The Initiative in Memory of Yaya Jabbi renames a nameless traffic island at Parc Fiction to Yaya Jabbi Circle and installs a memorial plaque. The Altona district office has it removed again immediately.

William Tonou-Mbobda, a student from Cameroon, checks himself into the hospital because he is suffering from mental health issues. On 21 April 2019, he is forcibly restrained by three security guards and collapses. After five days in an induced coma, William Tonou-Mbobda dies. Activists and family members suspect that those involved were motivated by racism and demand an investigation of his death. A preliminary investigation of the attending physician and three members of security is dropped in August 2020 due to a lack of evidence.

Several right-wing incidents at the Hamburg fire department become public. Five employees are alleged to have put a swastika on the computer screen of an immigrant colleague. Another employee allegedly spread racist content in an extreme right-wing chat group. The fire department initiates disciplinary investigations and measures.

An anonymous complaint is received against a police officer. The officer, who was often assigned to schools, had shared posts from extreme right-wing media and websites on his private but publicly accessible Facebook account for several years. Following the complaint, the officer is transferred.