[10] An investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) over whether they were poorly treated for racially motivated reasons did not find evidence that they were.

[13][14] Black Lives Matter protests across the United Kingdom marked the first anniversary of Abdi's death.

The family moved to Bury under the UK's vulnerable person's resettlement scheme in January 2017.

[4][15] Initial reports by media outlets including The Telegraph and Manchester Evening News incorrectly claimed that Abdi arrived in the UK around 2018.

Two individuals reportedly noticed the incident and entered the river to attempt to rescue Abdi.

[4] Police were called to the River Irwell at 8 p.m.[17] An underwater search team recovered Abdi's body shortly before midnight.

[5] An inquest found that one child told her carer that she threatened to kill Abdi, in a "laughing and joking manner", if she didn't enter the water.

[15] The family believed Abdi to have been wearing "full Islamic dress" at the time of her death, according to HuffPost.

[22][23] It heard that CCTV had been recovered of Abdi with some other children together earlier in the evening, but none from the river itself or the path that leads to it.

[20][5] A lawyer for the family said that because the police's statements were published within hours of Abdi's death, insufficient time had been dedicated to the investigation.

[28][14] A separate petition about both Abdi's death and that of Christopher Kapessa reached 5,000 signatures by March 2020.

[29] In June 2020, for the first anniversary of Abdi's death, eight protests in association with Black Lives Matter took place in the UK, locations including Birmingham, Cardiff, Manchester, London and Sheffield.

[3][2][14] Justice4Shukri member Maz Saleem commented that "People are angry that a young black refugee child was neglected by the very institutions that were there to protect her".