DaveCinzano
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Actions against the policing bill
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gawkrodger
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Yeh, I was only there for 90 mins but when I left, I'd estimate 250-300. One police van by starbucks but nowt else obvious. The demo did later make its way to Police HQ
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Bristol still holding firm it seems
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Meanwhile, more details from MPS strategy in London:
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Fundraiser for last week's fines from Manchester: Help us pay our fine for the kill the bill protest, organized by Ray Scullard
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
This little tableau from London today is rather interesting - some MPS attempt to snatch somebody, and almost immediately get overrun by a militant and uncompromising crowd.
I can't quite see if they hold onto their target, but almost immediately the cops are withdrawing at some speed and almost in panic even after support from CoLP wades in, whilst those in the crowd at the front facing them seem to be very composed and concede no space or rest, keeping the pressure on and denying them the chance to regroup in good order. And there is what appears to be very widespread chanting of ‘Fuck the Police’ too.
Edit: Also interesting that the copper calling out “WITHDRAW! WITHDRAW!” appears to be a CoLP Inspector, rather one of the original MPS contingent. Bit embarrassing for MPS to have to be rescued in the first place, but that CoLP called the shots so publicly also possibly an indication of poor operational control for the Met, especially as this is Parliament Square into Abingdon Street right outside the Houses of Parliament.
Edit 2: I mean COME ON - Britain's primus inter pares police force is forced to retreat away from PARLIAMENT, and has to be rescued by their laughing stock little siblings from the Square Mile? There'll be some long faces in the back bar of the Pig & Whistle tonight.
I can't quite see if they hold onto their target, but almost immediately the cops are withdrawing at some speed and almost in panic even after support from CoLP wades in, whilst those in the crowd at the front facing them seem to be very composed and concede no space or rest, keeping the pressure on and denying them the chance to regroup in good order. And there is what appears to be very widespread chanting of ‘Fuck the Police’ too.
Edit: Also interesting that the copper calling out “WITHDRAW! WITHDRAW!” appears to be a CoLP Inspector, rather one of the original MPS contingent. Bit embarrassing for MPS to have to be rescued in the first place, but that CoLP called the shots so publicly also possibly an indication of poor operational control for the Met, especially as this is Parliament Square into Abingdon Street right outside the Houses of Parliament.
Edit 2: I mean COME ON - Britain's primus inter pares police force is forced to retreat away from PARLIAMENT, and has to be rescued by their laughing stock little siblings from the Square Mile? There'll be some long faces in the back bar of the Pig & Whistle tonight.
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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Meanwhile, back in Bristol:
BristolEcho
Well-Known Member
Couldn't go today but good to see again in Bristol and elsewhere!
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Yeah lockdown easing means a lot of fucking is going to go on.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Making use of the opportunity in Bristol 
All this BANG! BANG! BANG! but-where's-the-tune thisisn'tmusic has, of course, awoken Grumpy Old Twitter in the comments
All this BANG! BANG! BANG! but-where's-the-tune thisisn'tmusic has, of course, awoken Grumpy Old Twitter in the comments
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
CALLING ALL LONDON PEOPLE:
Help needed to provide arrestee support over the next 24 hours.
Help needed to provide arrestee support over the next 24 hours.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Winding down it seems
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
This is curious, and I'm keeping an open mind, but you may have seen frothy-mouthed Blue Twitter going apoplectic about a picture of a banner supposedly saying ‘KILL COPS’* in London earlier today, with an unmasked chap apparently holding it in the middle (ex-undercover Peter Bleksley even offering him out). He sort of stands out because he is in amongst a bunch of people in all-black/dark clothes with face coverings/hoods/hats etc, yet he is wearing a lighter coloured thin coat over a dark suit jacket and light shirt, all rather louchely undone, with no head/face covering.
Anyway, some people have noticed that he appears to crop up at other times in the same clothes but with a face mask, behind police lines, and not in a way that makes it look like he is being detained or under arrest.
See thread here:
* It actually appears to be two separate banners, each one with one word on it, with what looks like other rolled up banner sections on the ground below the one on the left
Anyway, some people have noticed that he appears to crop up at other times in the same clothes but with a face mask, behind police lines, and not in a way that makes it look like he is being detained or under arrest.
See thread here:
* It actually appears to be two separate banners, each one with one word on it, with what looks like other rolled up banner sections on the ground below the one on the left
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
After realising that the stills in the thread above showed the location around Parliament Square I went back through the video in post #816 - and there he is. Whilst it doesn't really explain anything, he definitely doesn't appear to be being hindered by the police in any way. He appears to be accompanied by a woman. I lost track of him soon after he appears, the camera's focus is on the CoLP Inspector.
It may be he's just a random guy. Given that his uncovered mug was on display in what looked like a posed photo - in a heavily securitised, massively CCTVed-up area, and widely disseminated by hostile channels - with the banner(s), I don't think it's inappropriate to post this.
Banner(s) pic:
Approximate location:
‘Behind police lines' pic 1 from thread above:
Same but uncropped from #816 video at around 30s mark:
Better reference shot of same:
Approximate location:
‘Behind police lines' pic 2 from thread above:
Approximate location:
It may be he's just a random guy. Given that his uncovered mug was on display in what looked like a posed photo - in a heavily securitised, massively CCTVed-up area, and widely disseminated by hostile channels - with the banner(s), I don't think it's inappropriate to post this.
Banner(s) pic:
Approximate location:
‘Behind police lines' pic 1 from thread above:
Same but uncropped from #816 video at around 30s mark:
Better reference shot of same:
Approximate location:
‘Behind police lines' pic 2 from thread above:
Approximate location:
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Bristol: police now back on the scene
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
Thread here.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Cheers, but I don't think that thread has anything additional apart from saying ‘it's obvious he is an agent provocateur’, which I don't think the evidence as presented is conclusive on.
Fozzie Bear
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I was nearby when that banner came out and the guy was wearing a mask but was clearly still identifiable. (It was medical mask rather than the full black bloc business).
This was to the North East of the square when the speeches were happening. Circa 4pm. The cops were beginning to move in and tell people they were in breach of COVID regs and should disperse. It was beginning to get a bit aggy on both sides.
The banner was on the reverse of a professionally produced banner but I didn’t see what that was.
This was to the North East of the square when the speeches were happening. Circa 4pm. The cops were beginning to move in and tell people they were in breach of COVID regs and should disperse. It was beginning to get a bit aggy on both sides.
The banner was on the reverse of a professionally produced banner but I didn’t see what that was.
Fozzie Bear
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I assume his image will be all over the papers today and it is possible that he is just a wildly provocative insurrectionist type.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Definitely one of many possibilities at this stage
Fozzie Bear
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There are some frankly over creative suggestions on Twitter that the banner was intended to read “Cops Kill” or “Kill Cops Bill”.
I mean...
I mean...
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
It's almost as if they are desperate to prove that they ARE all misogynistic, bullying cunts.Brace yourselves, this is GRIM READING, re dawn raids in Bristol by ASC:
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 workerswww.theguardian.com
And if they're finding it all a big joke at work, how are we to assume that humiliating women stops the minute they're off duty?
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
In some respects it seems like a beefed-up update of the Operation Rhone raids, which didn't really lead to very much at all (arrests but NFA; no one to crucify for their expensive new Tri-Force Brazilian termination training facility; meline fugitive still at large).
Badgers visit Bristol CID HQ, armed police respond (UK)
From IndymediaUK: "Around 20 local anarchists, friends & badgers visited the HQ of the Bristol CID & Special Investigations at Sir Kenneth Steele House on Feeder Road in Bristol last Saturday 15th November. Officers operating from there have recently been visiting people’s homes and workplaces...
www.urban75.net
English Anarchists Have Been Caught Up in an Anti-Terrorism Police Crackdown
As the police search for the people responsible for a spate of attacks on property, anybody who calls themselves an anarchist in the town of Bristol seems to be under suspicion.
www.vice.com
Operation Rhone - a Freedom of Information request to Avon and Somerset Constabulary
I note that Avon and Somerset Constabulary have released various details to the press about “Operation Rhone” over the past few months. For example, the name is mentioned in the following article: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cops-hunt-anarchists-who-left-4736786 . In addition, they have...
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£16 million up in smoke, no injuries, no arrests nearly eight years after the event
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
As in "fuck the police"?
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I think at this stage it's not possible to say without uncertainty that ‘there was a single banner with the slogan “KILL COPS” on it’ simply because in the most widely circulating pictures it looks like two banners being held together in the middle by one person. Hopefully that's something battle-hardened briefs are keeping in their back pockets for now whilst they wait to see what direction MPS-CPS go in.There are some frankly over creative suggestions on Twitter that the banner was intended to read “Cops Kill” or “Kill Cops Bill”.
I mean...
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
If I had banners like that I'd reveal an er at the end of kill as the photographers congregated
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
I had a theory, did a search to see if anyone was talking about it, and it turns out Andy fucking Ngo (among others) are:
For the unfamiliar, BB is a former political prisoner linked to the wikileaks case, and is capable of some very good and funny trolling, so this does kind of feel like his style. Apologies for posting Ngo, but it is being talked about, and I'd feel irresponsible speculating about his identity if the guess hadn't also been made in some high profile places anyway.
For the unfamiliar, BB is a former political prisoner linked to the wikileaks case, and is capable of some very good and funny trolling, so this does kind of feel like his style. Apologies for posting Ngo, but it is being talked about, and I'd feel irresponsible speculating about his identity if the guess hadn't also been made in some high profile places anyway.
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