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Last Friday, the Home Office announced that new protest bans on individuals - Serious Disruption Prevention Orders - came into force. Read Netpol's explainer on the implications for campaigners
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These officers are intelligence gatherers. You don't have to talk to them, no matter how much they try to "chat"
Today, you will see a large police presence. Our role as an independent and impartial service, is to balance the right to lawful protest with potential disruption to Londoners.
Should you have any concerns, you can speak to Police or Stewards. We have specialist officers who you…
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A protester standing outside Conservative Party conference in Manchester with a handmade sign reading "Priti Fascist", during the Home Secretary's speech to delegates, was arrested and bundled into a police van.
He's not wrong, is he?
#PritiFascist
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The Metropolitan Police has decided not to routinely release bodycam video footage after internal reviews showed officers displaying "poor communication, a lack of patience, a lack of de-escalation before use of force is introduced"
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We are deeply concerned about the arrest of independent legal observers at the protest against the government's
#PoliceCrackdownBill
last night. Legal observers are not participants in protests, they are volunteers monitoring the way protests are policed.
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He was subsequently "dearrested" but how on earth does
@gmpolice
justify this fundamental denial of rights to freedom of expression and assembly?
#PritiFascist
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"As Priti Patel laid out her crackdown on protest inside, I was in the back of a van for simply standing alone with a piece of cardboard. If anything I'm more convinced now that this sign is the truth"
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During a series of
#KillTheBill
raids in Bristol, plain-clothed police pretending they were postal workers forced their way into homes of two young women, with one threatened with a Taser. Neither was arrested.
This is a shameful abuse of police power
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On one level this is almost funny, where it not for the real-world outcomes in so many instances: racial profiling, unjustifiable or simply unlawful arrests, violent restraint, the misuse of Taser and CS, all with little chance that complaints are taken seriously
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Thanks for the clarification. Does this mean your government is cancelling all 14000 lockdown fines this week?
Grant Shapps today claimed it is up to each individual to decide how best to follow lockdown measures
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Yesterday, the BBC's
@vicderbyshire
said, “we don’t use rubber bullets in the UK, we don’t know what they are”. Seattle protesters seem more aware of our history, erecting a ‘You are Entering Free Capitol Hill’ sign referencing the famous ‘Free Derry’ wall
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Greater Manchester Police officer making an arrest because someone had "broken the rules" for taking a tree from his mum's house
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Liam Geary Baulch who lives near Manchester told us: "within 30 seconds of holding this sign outside the Conservative party conference it was confiscated by Manchester police for "offensive language". When I asked to have my property back, I was arrested for breach of the peace"
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During a vehicle search in Aston, Birmingham, plainclothes officers seem like they're itching to start a fight with Asian locals
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Under what power? You do NOT have to give your personal details to the police. If you refuse to comply with this, are officers blocking access to the bridge? What an extraordinary day.
Police are doing indiscriminate ID checks on Lambeth Bridge.
@ExtinctionR
#PoliceState
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The Metropolitan Police have said they arrested protesters for "racially aggravated criminal damage... which we are investigating as hate crime".
A hate crime against Leonardo (formerly Finmeccanica), one of the world’s largest arms companies
“PALESTINE WILL NEVER DIE”
The occupation of Leonardo’s London HQ continues, disrupting the operational centre of a major weapons supplier for apartheid Israel’s genocide of Palestine.
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A reminder from
@JustStop_Oil
that Britain is now a part of the club of nations around the world imprisoning environmental defenders for actions that involve neither violence nor the threat of violence
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Less than a week after Israeli Police beat mourners at the funeral of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, why on earth is Hackney Police hosting a delegation of police from Israel? What are they hoping to learn from each other?
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Over this
#KillTheBill
weekend of action, protests across the country will have strangely over-friendly police officers out wearing blue bibs. They are gathering intelligence on a growing movement. You don't have to talk to them and our advice is not to
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The police say the "release of BWV is highly likely to exacerbate not prevent ‘trial by social media’ and increase media interest in an incident." What they call "trial by social media" is also called accountability. It led to this officer facing trial
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Things we've learnt about today: apparently it's absolutely sacrilegious to change the colours of a national flag on any item of clothing... except when it's done in this way 🤔
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A reminder if you're attending this weekend's
#KillTheBill
demonstrations: the over-friendly police officers in light blue bibs trying to start conversations with protesters are intelligence gatherers. You're not obliged to talk to them and it's safer for everyone if you don't
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This 'operation' is harassment of precarious workers, who are overwhelmingly from racialised communities and constantly targeted by immigration enforcement.
This is the institutional racism that the Metropolitan Police Commissioner denies exists in her force
Following numerous complaints about fast food delivery riders we conducted an operation in
#tooting
this afternoon with immigration enforcement.
In 90 mins we stopped
48 bikes.
2 were seized for no insurance
3 riders reported for offences
2 x arrests for immigration offences
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Today is the 15th anniversary of the state-sanctioned killing of Jean Charles de Menezes by Metropolitan Police firearms officers at Stockwell underground station. The officer in command of the operation that gunned down an innocent man is now Commissioner
#Justice4Jean
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🧵 With the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act about to become law, what's important now is not to panic or despair but to get ready to resist - a short thread on the new law's protest provisions
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BREAKING: activists have occupied a police station in London as part of
#KillTheBill
protests.
Read their statement here:
#freedomtoprotest
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2024: here we go again with the Met treating protests as a nuisance to tourists rather than a fundamental human right
Officers have now seized the sound equipment.
The group is in Birdcage Walk.
As you can see below, we have a large number of officers there to minimise disruption and deal with any offences.
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Last year the UN Human Rights Committee said legal observers "must not face reprisals or other harassment... if an assembly is declared unlawful or is dispersed, that does not terminate the right to monitor"
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BREAKING: Lowri, a young
#BlackLivesMatter
campaigner from south Wales, bravely managed to record a police officer’s attempt to recruit her as an informant. We believe such intimidating tactics are under-reported and more common than most people realise
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In a shock to absolutely *nobody* who has dealt with British policing for any length of time, the inspectorate has done what was expected of it and rubber-stamped the Metropolitan Police's shameful conduct at the Sarah Everard vigil on 13 March at Clapham Common
@SistersUncut
NEW: Today we have published our inspection into how
@metpoliceuk
handled the vigil in memory of Sarah Everard on Clapham Common.
Read our report here:
#SarahEverardVigil
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[Warning: violence]
"Use pain and compliance!"
A bronze commander from the Metropolitan Police issuing instructions to officers at the
#ExtinctionRebellion
protest at London City Airport this morning
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Keep filming the police
"There aren’t many professions where from the minute you arrive at an incident, you are filmed and then critiqued by armchair commentators."
Commissioner defends officers after a weekend where too many were injured or faced abuse, online and in person.
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The Metropolitan Police subjected Koshka Duff to a violent and degrading strip search after she was arrested for offering a ‘Know Your Rights’ card to a distressed teenager who had been stopped and searched. Help her to sue them
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International guidelines Britain has signed up to say "the right to be physically present in order to observe a public assembly is part of the general human right to receive or impart information (a corollary of the right to freedom of expression)"
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Any firearms officer who declines to go out on an armed patrol because they believe accountability does not apply to anyone in their unit is unfit to carry a gun. Impunity is a threat to public safety
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If like us you think the normalising of armed officers on Britain's streets is disturbing, Guildford's Cheese and Chilli Festival is one to avoid
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It's surprising how often some decide to display symbols they shouldn't, but will never risk arrest
📰 | Anyone carrying or displaying symbols supporting a proscribed organisation can expect to be arrested.
Officers policing a demo in London on Tuesday arrested a man for terrorism offences linked to support for Hamas. The investigation continues.
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[CN: violence] this much clearer view of officer 4087 QP beating a cowering, disoriented young man on the floor last night has been shared with us
#BristolProtests
(HT
@ArrLee10
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London's police union is seeking a new crackdown: on the sharing of video evidence of everyday oppressive policing on social media
Metropolitan Police Federation calls on government and force leaders to tackle social media firms that enable footage of officers dealing with incidents to be shared.
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If you're trapped inside the police kettle in Glasgow this evening and have firsthand testimony of officers refusing to allow you to leave, or saying you give your personal details before you are allowed, please email us at cop26policing
@protonmail
.com
📷
@xrBmthXchPoole
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Today we launch "Britain Is Not Innocent", our 60-page report on the policing of this summer's
#BlackLivesMatter
protests in Britain. Here's the key conclusions. Read and download the report at
#BritainIsNotInnocent
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REMINDER: if you taking part in the
#CeasefireNOW
Palestine solidarity march in London today, 'blue bib' police liaison officers will try to start conversations with you to gather intelligence. You don't have to talk to them - so keep each other safe and ignore them
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For the safety of people on the ground right now, we're reluctant to share any of the disturbing video yet from this evening's police riot in Bristol. Solidarity to everyone prepared to stand against the
#PoliceCrackdownBill
despite the constant threat of violence from the police
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This you?
On
#StephenLawrenceDay
, we remember Stephen and reflect on the changes that the Macpherson report brought to diversity within policing.
We continue to prioritise diversity and inclusion and continue to strive to achieve a truly representative workforce.
^ow
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Britain's Conservative government is planning to introduce major changes to public order legislation to crack down on protests, under a new “Protection of the Police and Public Bill” planned for 2021
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🧵 Anecdotally, it appears from reports we've had that the Metropolitan Police all over London is making a push on drugs stops and searches this long weekend, presumably because it's sunny and people are out and about. (1/5)
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The
@metpoliceuk
has admitted a Ilford officer, who dismissed a woman who said she was raped as “drunk” and refused to take her crime report, has escaped punishment as it cannot identify him. Staff logs from the night have mysteriously "gone missing"
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"We don’t use rubber bullets in the UK, we don’t know what they are". In a guest post,
@maev_mcdaid
and
@bbop1984
highlight how the British media continually erases the experiences of the north of Ireland when discussing militarised policing in the US
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A man having a mental health crisis in Peckham in south east London on 12 April has died from his injuries after police officers, reportedly trying to "persuade him to come inside from a balcony", tasered him and he fell
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Find out more about the potential impact of the government's new proposals to punish protesters.
#PritiFascist
EXPLAINER: what are the government’s latest proposals for punishing protesters?
#KillTheBill
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This is Carl Davis, a
#KillTheBill
demonstrator who was imprisoned yesterday for two years and six months for posing for photographs in front of a burning police van in Bristol in March 2021
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Today the government announced plans for a new crackdown on freedom to protest with its wide-ranging, draconian and illiberal Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. We urge you to oppose planned changes to the law - as a first step, sign our petition
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Face masks are "essentially threatening the future of a multimillion-dollar industry"
Some good news for the weekend.
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The Metropolitan Police used controversial 'live facial recognition' technology for intrusive surveillance on a trans solidarity protest - and then pepper sprayed demonstrators when an officer dropped his handcuffs in the crowd
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Based on intelligence from the National Police Coordination Centre, the Met says it has preemptively arrested a number of
@JustStop_Oil
activists on suspicion of intending to disrupt motorways. We've been saying for months the police are ramping up surveillance on campaigners.
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At least the weekend has taught a whole new group of people that talking to police "liaison" officers and meeting senior commanders - whose promises and undertakings are lies - is not just pointless but dangerous
#DefendDissent
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An Extinction Rebellion activist faces a £10,000 covid fine as an alleged "organiser" of a protest last year. Astonishingly
@metpoliceuk
did so because he was present in a liaison role with police on the day - fatally undermining the merits of this kind of line of communication
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We now understand FOUR vehicles were separately stopped and searched by
@gmpolice
. Campaigners were told this was because of a suspicion they intended to cause "serious disruption" at the Tory Party Conference.
New stop and search powers for disruption are not yet in force.
Great Manchester Police thought it was acceptable to pull over our coach as we travelled from London to Manchester to protest the Conservative Party Conference
Heavy handed police presence to try and intimidate peaceful protesters
We must all oppose this 👇
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If you're in London participating in the
#ExtinctionRebellion
protests, please remember the Police Liaison Officers in pale blue bibs are primarily in attendance to gather intelligence on your movement - despite what they may claim. You are under no obligation to talk to them
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Every one of the hundreds of know-your-rights sessions given by
@GBCLegal
over the last decade has said pretty much exactly this - officers don't know the law and rely on the authority of their uniform. But it's welcoming to see it confirmed by the Metropolitan Police Federation
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Stay safe on the streets today. And don't forget to make sure that the weirdly over-friendly blue bibbed "police liasion" (surveillance and intelligence gathering) officers are aware they are simply not welcome in our spaces, by collectively refusing to speak to them
#KillTheBill
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The Metropolitan Police has raided an Extinction Rebellion arts space where work was in progress on papier-mâché heads of media tycoons Murdoch, Rothermere, Barclay and Lebedev, ahead of protests this weekend.
Waiting for more details but apparently arrests have been made
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Officers from
@metpoliceuk
ordered the removal of a 'white silence is violence' banner outside a home in north London, telling the flatmates who hung it up to replace it with something less "offensive". When they refused they were threatened with arrest.
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Metropolitan Police chief Mark Rowley wants a review into the legal definition of extremism and says his force will be “absolutely ruthless” in dealing with pro-Palestine protests. We're entering a moment when the act of naming genocide is criminalised
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If you're in London participating in the
#ExtinctionRebellion
protests, please remember the Police Liaison Officers in pale blue bibs are primarily in attendance to gather intelligence on your movement - despite what they may claim. See our full film here
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What are your rights if the Police ask you to do a drugs swab?
❌Clubs can make it a condition of entry, but police can't compel you to comply
❌Refusal to comply shouldn't be grounds for a search
❌A positive swab shouldn't in and of itself be grounds to arrest you
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We've argued the term "UK policing" is meaningless because the north of Ireland maintains, despite the Good Friday Agreement, a fundamentally and historically different style of policing to England, Scotland and Wales.
Here's one example: there are no water cannon in Britain
Breaking: PSNI have deployed water cannon against protesters on Belfast’s Springfield Road
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Two days ago police in Brixton kicked in this man's door and assaulted him based on a mistaken identity. Eventually they let him go but despite freezing temperatures, refused to replace his door.
He shouldn't need to crowdfund:
@metpoliceuk
should pay up
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Jurors refuse to convict six Extinction Rebellion protesters for causing criminal damage, despite the judge telling them there was no defence in law (plus another reminder why pleading guilty, as one other defendant did, is not always the wisest choice)
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Last night in Dagenham in east London, police firearms officers shot and killed a man having a mental health crisis.
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Someone in Stockport Labour called
@gmpolice
to haul away a grieving man who has experienced unimaginable suffering, for wanting to know why the party's Deputy Leader is silent on the slaughter of civilians in Gaza. This must be what David Lammy meant by "power not protest"
"I LOST MY FAMILY IN GAZA!" A Palestinian who lost his mother, brother & nieces to Israel's bombing in Gaza confronts Angela Raynor & the Labour Party at a Stockport fundraiser.
How can the Labour Party & any party not call for a ceasefire when Israel's genocide has killed 25000…
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Greater Manchester Police is so worried about tensions after the drugs arrest of a young black man in Moss Side last night that they've put out a preemptive statement saying "no doubt over the next few days videos of the incident will start to circulate on social media"
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Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
Name a job where you can consistently be wrong and still not lose your job?
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We are hearing that group of
@XRebellionUK
cyclists are being kettled and arrested on Lambeth Bridge.
This reminds us of the time a critical mass was mass-arrested at the 2012 Olymics.
It was illegal then too and the police had to compensate people.
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LBC, the station that loves to demonise protesters and cheer on oppressive policing - until it affects one of theirs
'The only question was how I knew to be there.'
After being arrested while covering an eco-protest LBC Reporter
@charlotterlynch
recounts her experience.
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There is absolutely no evidence anyone attacked a police horse - this was more an "not in proper control of vehicle" incident. Nice try deflecting from the intense scrutiny you are under right now, though
To attack brave police officers - or our superb police horses - is unacceptable. We wish all colleagues - including those on four legs - well in the face of this mindless violence.
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It is worth clarifying that this second arrest arose from another participant in the demonstration objecting to the initial arrest.
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The wrong kind of jeans for exercise. Honestly, it's becoming embarrassing now
#PolicingTheCoronaState
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Content warning: another disturbing video of the everyday reality of policing in Britain
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Regimes deciding what is or isn't "legitimate" protest is the kind of thing the Foreign Office has criticised when it involves repressive states the British government doesn't like
We’re taking action on illegitimate protestors who are unfairly blocking motorways and disrupting people’s lives.
We’re giving the police the measures to stop them, with protesters facing six months in jail, or unlimited fines.
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We've received more reports that
@metpoliceuk
is leaning heavily on organisations raising aid funds for Palestinians, undoubtedly as a result of the intervention of the Home Secretary
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This is the individual who is proud to have infiltrated
@Pal_action
on behalf of the Express and then ratted them to the police. Another reminder that campaigners always need to take their own security seriously when organising direct action protests against genocide
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After Braverman's extraordinarily unhinged "hate marches" comment, Tory deputy chair Lee Anderson is now calling for police to treat Palestine solidarity protesters "like striking miners in 1984". For those too young to remember, he means violent arrests and wrongful convictions
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There's been little media coverage of how violent the police response was to community resistance to the immigration raid in Peckham yesterday. We've had reports of officers pushing people to the ground and stamping on them, with one protester suffering a partially dislocated hip
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Today we are launching a campaign to produce and publish a comprehensive report on the policing of
#BlackLivesMatter
protests in Britain. Find out how to share your evidence and testimony and how to donate at
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Lads that's a pruning saw.
SNT officers conducting a weapons sweep yesterday in West Ham Park found this nasty knife. If anyone in the community wants to participate in weapons sweeps or has info about weapons being stored in open spaces email:NEMailbox-.ViolenceFocusDesk
@met
.police.uk
#OpSceptre
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If you plan to protest at
#TheBigOne
in London over the weekend, please remember the "Police Liaison Officers" in pale blue bibs are primarily in attendance to gather intelligence on you - despite what they may claim. You are under no obligation to talk to them
#SayNoToPLOs
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Police Scotland has been criticised for training officers from Hong Kong’s “brutal” and “aggressive” law enforcement regime
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Firearms officers thought impunity would last forever. Even the possibility of a small measure of accountability for killing Chris Kaba has made their role internally toxic. Finally, some good news
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The judge said there was no evidence "that any of these defendants are supporters of Hamas, or were seeking to show support for them" but then convicted them of "glorifying terrorism" offences anyway.
Each received a 12-month conditional discharge
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A black activist has been threatened with arrest and prosecution for organising the "Million People March" starting in Notting Hill this weekend, with the police now taking it upon themselves to decide what is or isn’t a sufficiently "political" protest
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PRESS RELEASE:
@gmpolice
has agreed to pay compensation to Liam Geary Baulch after its officers unlawfully arrested him outside the Conservative Party Conference last year for holding up a
#KillTheBill
protest sign saying "Priti Fascist"
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A Metropolitan Police misconduct panel has decided tasering a 10-year-old girl twice is just fine and there is nothing to see here
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In advance of every central London protest, we have highlighted how the Met's video surveillance is becoming more and more intensive. A passing comment in a BBC report on yesterday's huge demonstration might help to illustrate this
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