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"The government is working with policing and other partners to do everything in our power to ensure this game can safely go ahead, with all fans present," a government spokesperson said.

Critics believe that stop-and-frisk tactics have taken a new, digitized form in what is known as “predictive policing,” a practice that reinforces racial bias through algorithms and big data.

"This decision will leave gaping holes in front line policing," Elizabeth Campbell said.

He and others say an invocation of the Insurrection Act would shift widespread concern about military policing of American streets into existential territory.

An undercover policing inquiry heard the Metropolitan force put the family under surveillance "almost immediately" after the 18-year-old was killed in a racist attack in 1993.