Actions against the policing bill

[ddraig]

Cardiff

blocking dual carriageway outside home office building

 

[DaveCinzano]

Another Gogarty twitter thread special for Bristol:

 

[Pickman's model]

Decent running commentary from London‘s here:

Seems bloody, good luck to all out

 

[DaveCinzano]

Met and CoLP snatch hogs upping the ante in London at the moment

 

[DaveCinzano]

Ex-Special Branch sneak Chris Hobbs is roaming around getting fan footage of his former colleagues in action

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I suppose it was always a bit optimistic that they'd behave themselves.

 

[DaveCinzano]

“It's carnage here”

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Some fairly randomly picked ones from more peaceful times.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Going off the LAFA timeline, kettle in place now

 

[DaveCinzano]

The CoLP flat-top conferring with the Ch Insp (red cap) in Hobbs' footage looks familiar

 

[DaveCinzano]

Threatening to nick Legal Observers

 

[Pickman's model]

The CoLP flat-top conferring with the Ch Insp (red cap) in Hobbs' footage looks familiar

They all have a certain family resemblance which given their porcine heritage is unsurprising

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I see the Met are still insisting it's all about covid regs.

I mean I suppose we should feel lucky that we have a police force so dedicated to the health of the populace that they will inflict blunt trauma to preserve it.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Basically they're phalanxes of well-armed Shipmans, doing whatever it takes to maintain a strong and vibrant citizenry

 

[hitmouse]

Threatening to nick Legal Observers

They seem to have nicked the tweet from that post.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Threatening to nick Legal Observers

Raj going in HARD

 

[DaveCinzano]

Intriguing police strategy

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

That night it kicked off in Bristol for the first time, someone here put a really good post about what people shouldn’t share on social
media that could identify activists.

Any chance someone can wade through and re-post? Ta.

 

[ddraig]

That night it kicked off in Bristol for the first time, someone here put a really good post about what people shouldn’t share on social
media that could identify activists.

Any chance someone can wade through and re-post? Ta.

Why don't you go back to that date yourself and look?

 

[hitmouse]

That night it kicked off in Bristol for the first time, someone here put a really good post about what people shouldn’t share on social
media that could identify activists.

Any chance someone can wade through and re-post? Ta.

I don't think it was actually this, but this is sound advice:

 

[hitmouse]

A reminder

• Wear a mask
• Don't wear easily identifiable clothes or footwear
• Wear a mask
• Don't wield easily identifiable personal possessions like skateboards
• Wear a mask
• Wear gloves
• WEAR A FUCKING MASK
• Don't film 'stuff'
• Definitely DON'T LIVESTREAM
• Best off leaving your phone somewhere else
• And definitely wear a mask

Was it this?

 

[ddraig]

Was it this?

They're appropriating your labour comrade!! They could've done the legwork themselves!!

 

[Fozzie Bear]

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

Why don't you go back to that date yourself and look?

I did, but I’m on a shitty phone and eased through a few pages with no sight of it.

 

[hitmouse]

Helpful new advertising campaign:

 

[hitmouse]

Oh, and GMP apparently dealing with someone allegedly swearing in their usual restrained and tactful fashion:

 

[DaveCinzano]

Brace yourselves, this is GRIM READING, re dawn raids in Bristol by ASC:

...she was mistakenly arrested after a male officer dressed as a postal worker tricked his way into her shared student house in north Bristol five days later. She says the disguised officer and at least three other male plain-clothed officers followed her flatmate up the stairs before revealing they were police with a warrant. They then burst into McGoran’s bedroom and handcuffed her while she was only partially dressed.

“It was frightening having all these policemen in my room after what happened to Sarah Everard and seeing footage of the vigil in Clapham,” she said. “I was only wearing a T-shirt, underwear and a short dressing gown. I felt really vulnerable. I started having a panic attack. I was so scared. I was shrieking and asking to call my mum but they said ‘no’ and told my flatmate to go to her room.”

The officers, she claimed, kept her in handcuffs even after they realised she didn’t match the picture of the person they were looking for. They watched, she added, as she struggled to put some joggers on: “I couldn’t put them on because of the cuffs. I was crying. It was really humiliating.”

McGoran said they eventually uncuffed her but didn’t apologise for the 20-minute ordeal. “They were making jokes when they had caused me to have a panic attack,” she said.

The same day the police are said to have used similar tactics to raid another all-female shared student house in the city. The family of Grace Hart, who is 16, claimed she answered the door twice to a male officer pretending to be postal worker with a package for her flatmate. Her father, Paul Hart, said she became suspicious so she started to close the door. The officer, he claimed, then barged in along with a group of at least three other plain-clothed male officers shouting “police” and pointing Tasers at her.

“They pushed her up against the wall. They had Tasers out. She had red dots on her body,” he said. “Three of those could have killed her because of the voltage. It’s an excessive use of force. It’s absolutely horrendous.”

The officers, claimed Hart, searched the entire house, including his daughter’s room, even though the person they were looking for wasn’t there and Grace didn’t attend any of the protests. Grace said she felt “violated” by the raid and added “I’m now really nervous to open the door when I don’t know who is behind it.”

Women’s anger at ‘abuse of power’ during Bristol police raids

Two protesters claimed they were subject to terrifying ordeals at the hands of male officers pretending to be postal workers

www.theguardian.com

 

[bellaozzydog]

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Is the M32 still blocked in Brizzle?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Is the M32 still blocked in Brizzle?

I believe not