the criminalisation and threatening of peaceful environmental
protesters is scary.
The independent today
G20 protesters 'will try to bring London to standstill'
Police fear anti-capitalist groups will seek violent confrontation on streets
Later in transpires that this involves
"Some groups are said to be considering filling roads with sand and
then sending children to play in it, making it impossible for police
officers to forcibly remove them."
wow really violent!!
Harriet
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/g20-protesters-will-try-to-bring-london-to-standstill-1650588.html
2009/3/20 Torsten Mark Kowal <[log in to unmask]>:
> http://www.britcit.co.uk/content/archives/2009/03/kingsnorth-report-reveals-shocking-police-campaign-of-intimidation-against-protesters.html
>
> Kingsnorth report reveals shocking police campaign of intimidation against
> protesters
>
> By Citizen K on 12 March 2009 1 Comment No TrackBacks
>
> UPDATE 17/03/2009: The report and appendices are now available online. See
> the bottom of this post for the links.
>
> Earlier today Lib Dem MP David Howarth held a meeting in Westminster to
> present a highly disturbing and potentially explosive report on the way
> police in the UK are criminalising legitimate protest. The report, produced
> by the Climate Camp's legal support team and entitled Policing of the
> Kingsnorth Climate Camp: Preventing Disorder or Preventing Protest?, is
> devastating for the police.
>
> It documents a concerted campaign by police to deter, smear, intimidate,
> harass, and criminalise UK citizens who did nothing more than attempt to
> exercise their right to peaceful protest in the name of an important cause.
> The following film accompanies the report and fully conveys the extent of
> the scandal.
>
> As well as documenting the alarming police tactics at Kingsnorth, the report
> also highlights a deliberate attempt to deflect criticism through
> misinformation. Government justified the heavy-handed approach by revealing
> that 70 police officers had been injured policing the protest; but a freedom
> of information request revealed that these 'injuries to police' included
> such things as heatstroke, toothache and insect bites. Vernon Coaker, the
> Home Office minister who had made the claim about police injuries, was later
> forced to apolgise to the House and admit that "there were no recorded
> injuries to police officers sustained as a result of direct contact with the
> protestors".
>
> Here are the links to the report and appendices:
>
> Policing of the Kingsnorth Climate Camp: Preventing Disorder or Preventing
> Protest?
> Appendix 1: List of police injuries
> Appendix 2: Police medical treatment
> Appendix 3: Kent Police FOI Response
> Appendix 4: Letter from Vernon Coaker to David Howarth
> Appendix 5: List of seized property
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