Actions against the policing bill
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I'm remembering Stokes Croft and the feelings of resentment that my neighbourhood had been invaded by tooled up maniacs from across the country who had arrived with the express purpose of battering my neighbours (and me if I'd been unlucky). It's now happening againI hear that, been thinking about the photographs of injuries sustained by the person I mentioned here, and flashing back to a more personal encounter with SG truncheons and angry attack dogs (leading to an extended period of physio) not unadjacent to where the longhaired livestreamer got sucker-nicked
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
It's always upsetting. Made worse by the knowledge that there is zero prospect of those responsible being held to account, especially not when everyone from the prime minister on down has already lined up behind them.
The one cold comfort is that the police's actions were so clearly motivated by cowardice and hatred. That's how they live their lives, in fear. Fear and piss-boiling rage at the fact that their own cowardice is shown up time and again by the fact there are always, always people willing to come out and stand up to them, with no weapons or armour or state backup whatsoever, and to do so not for overtime pay but because they believe it has to be done.
They have already been punished for their actions, and the punishment is they that have to live out their days as the sort of miserable invertebrate that would do such things in the first place.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Yebbut, she's female, foreign, and her surname is related to fruit, so she doesn't count </tory>
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done.”
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
1000+ out in Sheffield today. Marched through the city centre and sat down here and there (here being outside a cop shop and there being a main, but currently unused, road). Very good natured, young, very noisy and jolly rude to the police, of whom only two were visible. I left about half four, after a bloke had read out two poems.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Manchester
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Meanwhile In Brighton...
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i think it's still early in this protest cycle so there's far more to come. if people are coming out like this in lockdown i think far more will come out as the covid situation eases.
...and back at the police station
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
And it's this sort of thing which will make the summer a) long and b) hot
After a week of "violent protestors hurting our lovely policemen" bullshit, and "wanted" photos, The Guardian serves up this for balance?
'Protest is a human right': one long week in Bristol, a city with a history of dissent
I'm still fuming.
'Protest is a human right': one long week in Bristol, a city with a history of dissent
I'm still fuming.
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