RIP Sarah Everard, who went missing from Brixton in March 2021

[IC3D]

is this sarcasm? I mean presumably you’ve been reading what people who were there have said about what went down.

Do you think he helped then?

 

[Edie]

Why was Corbyn there in the first place?

Because there are people who go to protests just because they are protests. It’s a fucking circuit. And completely devalues the point. Plus he’s a man with a loud voice from a middle class white family. Urgh absolute cretin.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

I heard one P.O. saying “I encourage you to start leaving now” as he and his partner wandered through the crowd but I could also hear the raised voices of other officers bellowing more confrontational stuff elsewhere.

I left as soon as I felt the mood shift. I’ve been at enough protests to be able to tell when that happens and I’m just not so strong and nimble as I was, so I decided to leave it in the hands of my younger sisters. I went to the quieter vigil (no cops at all) at Poynder’s Court and stayed there for a while. Passers by were stopping to pay their respects and read the messages, a couple of women with their fellas beside them, some of us just alone, holding vigil. Tears aplenty, very little chat. Numbers fluctuated from one or two up to eight or nine, down to just a few again. I stayed about half an hour.

Got home in time to put a candle lantern and a written sign for Sarah Everard on New Park Road, along where she would have walked had she gotten home safely.



As someone else said, it looked a lot as if the cops waited for nightfall before they got busy at Clapham. It was quiet and somber, very focussed on the matter at hand before the cops intervened. It felt private.

But then the cops stopped women from speaking. For me, that was the issue. Women were speaking without a megaphone, their words being repeated by the crowd so everyone could hear. But then police intervened somehow (I was too far back to see what they actually did ) and the cry went up “Let her speak!” It was the utter absurdity and pure hypocrisy in that, I think, that caused the mood to shift. That’s when the chanting started, the crowd calling in unison “whose streets, our streets, no justice no peace” (which seemed to be started by a Black man standing near me... it felt like he’d connected the BLM movement to this, and it felt like Brotherhood) and then “arrest your own”. Seemed to me like cops near me really didn’t like that, a bunch of women calling them out for hypocrisy, that was another little flip moment.




Please excuse the possible romanticism in my interpretation. I can only report what my own observation told me, and I was in an emotional state of mind.

I’ve just been out to retrieve the white board I put out last night, and it’s been moved to a more prominent spot and some flowers have been put there. So I’ll leave it where it is.

 

[editor]

 

[teqniq]

Might not do much but emailed my local MP cc my Lambeth Labour Cllrs to ask MP to support LD calls for Cressida Dick to resign.

There's a petition - yes I know much good it may do but it's attracted over 15,000 signatures:

Cressida Dick must resign over vigil policing

The scenes of women being arrested at the #ClaphamCommon #ReclaimTheseStreets vigil for Sarah Everard are shocking – and shameful for the police. Cressida Dick, police commissioner, must resign.

r.ippl.es

 

[hitmouse]

This is probably too late to be of any use, but if anyone thinking of attending events today or over the next few days has a printer, I would strongly suggest printing off as many of these as you feel able:
standard GBC/Netpol/ACAB bustcard (A4 print version)
Black Protest Legal Support’s bustcard with Covid-19 info
Shareable version for social media:

Key messages from GBC:

Planning to be out on a #ReclaimTheseStreets protest on Saturday? Here are our top legal tips to remember - we need you to learn your rights & share these key messages by retweeting!
1. NO COMMENT! You’re usually not required to answer police questions, so don’t. - Say ‘no comment’. This includes ‘friendly chats’, on the streets, in a police van & during interview. PLOs (officers in blue bibs) are trained intelligence gatherers - remember ‘NO COMMENT’
2. NO PERSONAL DETAILS! You DON’T legally have to give personal details when you’re being stopped & searched & you usually don’t need to give personal details to police anyway. There are some exceptions:
Exceptions: - If you’re arrested many people choose to give their name, address, & date of birth (nothing else) when they get to the custody desk (not before, not in the streets or in the police van) as not giving this can delay release
3. UNDER WHAT POWER? Police sometimes rely on protesters not knowing the law. If police tell you to do something make sure you challenge them to act lawfully by asking ‘AM I LEGALLY OBLIGED TO?’ & ‘UNDER WHAT POWER?’

4. NO DUTY SOLICITOR! If you’re arrested never take the solicitor offered by the police- they may not know anything about protest & give bad advice. Instead we recommend asking for ITN
@ITNSolicitors
020 3909 8100 or HJA
@hodgejonesallen
0808 149 8133
5. NO CAUTION! A caution is an admission of guilt for an offence without the police having to show evidence. This stays on your record & can impact employment. It’s best not to accept one, unless a trusted solicitor has specifically advised you to and explained why

Legal Observers will be out tomorrow - look out for them in numbered orange bibs & pick up a bustcard (pictured below). If you can print bustcards, please visit our printable version at http://greenandblackcross.org/bustcard/
Got legal questions, witness an arrest or police violence or get arrested yourself? Make sure to call the Protest Support Line for tips & support at 07946 541 511 (write this number on the top of your arm under a sleeve)

More graphics and resources here: Graphics and Resources | Green and Black Cross

 

[existentialist]

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One of life's triangle players...he's that fucking tone-deaf.

 

[wurlycurly]

Might not do much but emailed my local MP cc my Lambeth Labour Cllrs to ask MP to support LD calls for Cressida Dick to resign.

It's really grim that Labour isn't calling for Dick to go. Starmer has been such a fence-sitting disappointment on a whole raft of issues.

 

[Pickman's model]

It's really grim that Labour isn't calling for Dick to go. Starmer has been such a fence-sitting disappointment on a whole raft of issues.

You won't believe what he doesn't do next

 

[Artaxerxes]

This is probably too late to be of any use, but if anyone thinking of attending events today or over the next few days has a printer, I would strongly suggest printing off as many of these as you feel able:
standard GBC/Netpol/ACAB bustcard (A4 print version)
Black Protest Legal Support’s bustcard with Covid-19 info
Shareable version for social media:

Key messages from GBC:

I hope that comes in a printer friendly version because otherwise that's a lot of black ink

 

[SheilaNaGig]

I hope that comes in a printer friendly version because otherwise that's a lot of black ink

I was just thinking the same thing!

 

[hitmouse]

Yep, printer-friendly version here (although this is from last summer, whereas the black ink-heavy one has been updated more recently, not sure what the specific differences are):

 

[muscovyduck]

This is probably too late to be of any use, but if anyone thinking of attending events today or over the next few days has a printer, I would strongly suggest printing off as many of these as you feel able:
standard GBC/Netpol/ACAB bustcard (A4 print version)
Black Protest Legal Support’s bustcard with Covid-19 info
Shareable version for social media:

Key messages from GBC:



More graphics and resources here: Graphics and Resources | Green and Black Cross

Even if its too late this time (which it might not be) it's good to get this info out now while we've got everyone's attention for next time

 

[hitmouse]

Yeah, and if people don't have printers I would still very very strongly advise them to note down some of those numbers, esp 07946 541 511.

 

[wurlycurly]

This is from Nimco Ali, the government's adviser on violence against women and girls: "Honestly, it [the Met tactics] does come from the handbook of abusive men, where … you’re constantly blaming the victim for your act of violence, so rather than actually taking accountability it was more like ‘women should not have turned up’. The police had the opportunity to choose how they reacted and they reacted in a terrible way and a disproportionate way." Spot on.

 

[xenon]

Do you think he helped then?

of course not. But he clearly wasn’t invited. And he clearly didn’t trigger the police. Sounds to me like they were told to take a tough line on this. Individual offices might have interprete this with more or less zeal. But still that was the plan. Corbin or no Corbin.

 

[teqniq]

I see that Labour are now opposing the new police and crime bill rather than abstaining - why the fuck would they abstain in the first place anyway?

 

[two sheds]

police trampled the flowers didn't they? Criminal damage you'd think

 

[existentialist]

I hope that comes in a printer friendly version because otherwise that's a lot of black ink

Sorted.

 

[existentialist]

I see that Labour are now opposing the new police and crime bill rather than abstaining - why the fuck would they abstain in the first place anyway?

Because Starmer's basically a Tory in a red tie.

 

[two sheds]

Sorted.

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Wonder whether that'll still stand after the new policing law comes in. :

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Because Starmer's basically a Tory in a red tie.

not even that a lot of the time

 

[editor]

This is probably too late to be of any use, but if anyone thinking of attending events today or over the next few days has a printer, I would strongly suggest printing off as many of these as you feel able:
standard GBC/Netpol/ACAB bustcard (A4 print version)
Black Protest Legal Support’s bustcard with Covid-19 info
Shareable version for social media:

Key messages from GBC:



More graphics and resources here: Graphics and Resources | Green and Black Cross

Thanks for this - I've posted something on Buzz to spread the word.

Know your rights at a protest during lockdown – info and resources, March 2021

In the wake of police activates at the recent #ReclaimTheseStreets protest in Clapham Common, legal resources collective Green & Black Cross have published useful guidelines explaining your ri…

www.brixtonbuzz.com

 

[Thora]

Why was Corbyn there in the first place?

Some men believe their input is required/welcomed everywhere.

 

[Manter]

Why was Corbyn there in the first place?

He’d turn up to the opening of a bin if he thought he could cause trouble

 

[danny la rouge]

I see that Labour are now opposing the new police and crime bill rather than abstaining - why the fuck would they abstain in the first place anyway?

Starmer’s a cop.

 

[Gramsci]

There's a petition - yes I know much good it may do but it's attracted over 15,000 signatures:

Cressida Dick must resign over vigil policing

The scenes of women being arrested at the #ClaphamCommon #ReclaimTheseStreets vigil for Sarah Everard are shocking – and shameful for the police. Cressida Dick, police commissioner, must resign.

r.ippl.es

Thanks. Signed. It is well worded petition

 

[teqniq]

danny la rouge existentialist The question was semi-rhetorical.

 

[existentialist]

danny la rouge existentialist The question was semi-rhetorical.

Too late now

But it's also exactly what I thought when I saw the images, so since you mentioned it, I thought I'd make the (miniscule) effort to whack them through Gimp.

 

[teqniq]

Too late now

But it's also exactly what I thought when I saw the images, so since you mentioned it, I thought I'd make the (miniscule) effort to whack them through Gimp.

Here, I am referring to this post:

Because Starmer's basically a Tory in a red tie.