i was up at the climate camp, had the nicest most peacefull attitude all day there with banners sayin dont sell carbon deficit when you can sell cake, and similar themes, there were some of the hardcore anarchist groups down at the bank of england, which i dont think helped matters down there, but in the evening at climate camp the police kettled off the whole camp, and then they kettled off the groups at either end trying to get to the camp later on, once it got dark things changed rapidly tho, with new heavier looking riot police comin in better equipped, we decided to walk up onto an archway that you could sit on to get a better view, and was soon lookin down at where we had been, and everyone was gettin beaten for no reason, no provocation, they were all holding their hands up whilst the police hit them with sheilds and batons. this was only the beginning, after bein asked to clear the ledge by the police tellin em no way were we comin down into that area, they brought in guys in full riot gear with grapplin hooks and harnesses.
so after comin down we ended up behind the police line at the north end of climate camp where there were again 2 lines, stood round with a few ppl maybe 10 or 15 at most, only two of em i knew, they suddenly moved in 15 dogs behind us and a line of coppers the other side and started pushin us into the dogs towards the back of the existing police lines, was fuckin terrifying, we were then pushed back up the road, and pushed over a short wall where me and 3 other ppl were helpless on our backs, and having our legs beaten with batons while tryin to get up. managed to find my feet, somehow, only to be hit in the throat by a copper usin his sheild as a weapon, and then smacked across the back of the head and knocked out, luckily some random people picked me up and helped patch my head up, whilst we were essentially run out of the camp, they pushed in surges, running straight at us, i could barely walk and was having to run, pushed us straight down the road into heavy traffic, i saw a woman on her way home, bravely ride her bike through the protesters straight towards the police, and they hit her a few times and sent her down a side alley once they realised she wasnt protesting, but a lot of the people running with us werent protesting either, and were just normal people curious about all the fuss, and climate camp wasnt a riot so i dont understand why riot tactics were used.
saw some fuckin horrible things in the last 48 hours, today there was still a smaller protest down at the bank of england, only a hundred maybe 200 people, but the police were kettling them still, i saw them pull a group of anarchists out past police lines, into the little square where me and a few freinds were standin, and then singled out 1 guy in the middle of the crowd, outside the police cordon, watched 3 coppers walk out of the cordon and two come in behind the man and just jump him and kick the crap out of him whilst the rest of them then surrounded him so we could not help him. now i dunno about you when i see someone bein hurt for no reason, especially as he was out of the police lines and unlikely to carry on causin too much trouble, then i would generally try and help, but to be beaten back for just standing in the wrong place at the wrong time i thought was a bit much. and they knocked my camera out of my hands too while doin this so i lost all footage of the evening before.
