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Police PR departments & protest
Police in Bristol have tonight arrested a number of people who they say were squatting a building in Stokescroft. There has been a long running squat on Cheltenham Road in…
A proportionate response?
"Overall our impression was that the police reacted proportionately" So is the judgement of Liberty on the police's handling of the events of the 26th of March. Liberty, an organisation…
Crime and privilege
This piece first appeared over at The Topsoil A lot of people had disturbing experiences in the cells after the Fortnum & Mason arrests, one girl was told she couldn’t…
Who Can Afford to Protest?
By Ruth Cape, writing from Tromsø. With the issue of possessing a right to protest surely being fresh in our collective minds at the moment, the recent case of the…
Pepper spray update: the law is just for plebs
Slightly as I expected, in asking where the Met's Defence Council authorisation to carry pepper spray or CS was, I was missing something. I assumed it would be an obscure…
Undercover cops: political or commercial?
The reaction to the news that an undercover police officer, Mark Kennedy, spent seven years infiltrating green campaign groups has been genuinely fascinating. Quite understandably there’s been the strong sense…
Ratcliffe trial: a defendant tells the tale
Soaring ambitions Being arrested and charged with a crime you didn’t commit is far less glamorous in real life than in the movies. It happened to me just before midnight,…
Shock Doctrine comes to Ireland
A video from today of Irish students protesting against cuts to education funding. Go 3 minutes in to see the police take their truncheons to a group of students who…