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Im cross posting this from a friend on another forum. Pretty disgusting if what he says is true (Ive no reason to disbelieve him, hes a decent sort.)
"I was at the protests yesterday and witnessed many examples of police brutality. My 19-year-old sister was forced to the floor by police when caught in a crowd an...d when attempting to get up was punched in the face by a male officer. She is sporting a black eye this morning. I was also punched in the face by an officer and when I went to make a note of his numbers, two of his colleagues spotted me doing so and placed their hands on his shoulders, making sure I couldn't see them. I continuously asked for him to make his numbers visible. His response was to smirk and say that he couldn't hear me."
"It seemed more to be motivated by traditional aims of kettling that are rarely stated: to demoralise protesters so much that they are dissuaded from taking part again, and to exhaust them physically so that they go home quietly (not that there was any need for the latter by this stage of the night). While queueing to leave Parliament Square, a woman next to me jokingly told a police officer that if they let us go, she would promise that this would be her last demonstration. The officer replied, "That's the point.""
Another poster who is ex police, stated that
"I'm ex police who is now a full time student, so as I'm watching this I'm in a position of knowing exactly how it feels to be on both sides.
A purely personal and anecdotal thing I wanted to say was this. Most cops I met who joined up to PSU (the riot cops), did it because they fucking love a ruck and get dead excited when there is a big job like this coming up. Having been a cop, I know first hand they are not always 100% professional. "
"I was at the protests yesterday and witnessed many examples of police brutality. My 19-year-old sister was forced to the floor by police when caught in a crowd an...d when attempting to get up was punched in the face by a male officer. She is sporting a black eye this morning. I was also punched in the face by an officer and when I went to make a note of his numbers, two of his colleagues spotted me doing so and placed their hands on his shoulders, making sure I couldn't see them. I continuously asked for him to make his numbers visible. His response was to smirk and say that he couldn't hear me."
"It seemed more to be motivated by traditional aims of kettling that are rarely stated: to demoralise protesters so much that they are dissuaded from taking part again, and to exhaust them physically so that they go home quietly (not that there was any need for the latter by this stage of the night). While queueing to leave Parliament Square, a woman next to me jokingly told a police officer that if they let us go, she would promise that this would be her last demonstration. The officer replied, "That's the point.""
Another poster who is ex police, stated that
"I'm ex police who is now a full time student, so as I'm watching this I'm in a position of knowing exactly how it feels to be on both sides.
A purely personal and anecdotal thing I wanted to say was this. Most cops I met who joined up to PSU (the riot cops), did it because they fucking love a ruck and get dead excited when there is a big job like this coming up. Having been a cop, I know first hand they are not always 100% professional. "
