'Kettle the Met' - London: Saturday 23rd May

[shaman75]

This thread is so depressing.

 

[winjer]

The FIT plod on the left there is one of (at least) two at this march who was present when Tomlinson was assaulted.

 

[winjer]

LDMG, Climate Camp London Neighbourhood, Newham Monitoring Project, and plan B collaborated to produce this leaflet given out on Saturday:

On Bad Apples, Kettles and Violence

Police baton charges, people penned in for hours on end, buildings raided, dog bites, injuries and death. None of these are exceptional or the result of police 'out of control'. They are all standard police tactics. This is what 'democracy' and policing looks like...

http://www.ldmg.org.uk/files/bad_apples_kettles_and_violence.pdf

 

[danny la rouge]

Judging by the poor turn out on yesterday's demo I fear that the momentum for building an effective national campaign against Police violence is being lost. It seems that active support and mobilisation for this campaign is concentrated almost exclusively in London.

To be fair, though, the Met is almost exclusively in London, too.

 

[partyzan]

To be fair, though, the Met is almost exclusively in London, too.

what difference does this make? people from across the country who have attended national demonstrations have been affected by their tactics.