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- Metropolitan Police defended using drill rap lyrics as evidence in trials.
- A Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity report found drill lyrics used against 252 defendants between 2020 and 2023.
- Art Not Evidence, a group, is lobbying to bar creative expression as evidence.
- The group warns that using drill lyrics fuels disparities and chills freedom of expression.
- Mother Valentina Locci said drill lyrics helped bring her son’s killers to justice.
