Category: Policing
2nd Most Powerful British Woman A Homophobe
May 12th, 2010, No Comments
The Tories are indeed running true to form. The Public Whip (via Charlie Brooker on Twitter) reveals that Theresa May, Britain’s new Home Secretary and Secretary for Women and Equal Rights (including gay rights) has voted ‘moderately against’ gay rights during her career as an MP. Is it even possible to be ‘moderately’ homophobic? Homophobia [...]
Strict Nanny…*
May 12th, 2010, No Comments
(*In the voice of Marcus Brigstocke) Theresa May gets Home Secretary, making her most powerful woman in the country after the Queen. The Tories run true to form. They do like a firm hand…
‘If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next’
May 4th, 2010, No Comments
Today is the 40th anniversary of the National Guard’s shootings of student Vietnam War protestors at Kent State University in Ohio. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose – earlier today Martin posted about unwarranted police violence at a peaceable, permitted May Day protest in Rotterdamand this was his view on why the police [...]
Police violence at Rotterdam May Day demo
May 4th, 2010, No Comments
From a posting on Marxmail, an eyewitness account of police violence against this year’s May Day celebrations in Rotterdam: Here’s some video I shot of the police attacking the Mayday demo in Rotterdam. I realize that police attack demos somewhere in the world every day, but this was rather significant because this demo has been [...]
Tick, Tick, No Boom
May 2nd, 2010, 2 Comments
A bomb in Times Square could’ve been very nasty indeed, whether rabid teapartiers, Islamic or Xtian fundies were responsible: NEW YORK — Police found an “amateurish” but potentially powerful bomb in a smoking sport utility vehicle in Times Square, then cleared the streets of thousands of tourists milling through the landmark district so they could [...]
Criminalising protest
April 2nd, 2010, No Comments
BBC Newsnigft has finally taken notice of the way in which the police and criminal prosecution system are attempting to criminalise protest, in particular the protests against the Israeli invasion of Gaza last year: It turns out a large proportion of the people being arrested were Muslims under anti-terrorism laws, rather than under say less [...]
Disgusted by British justice, again
March 31st, 2010, No Comments
Delroy Smellie (and his fat beer belly) cleared of assault: District Judge Daphne Wickham found no evidence had been provided to show use of the baton was not measured or correct. She said: “It was for the prosecution to prove this defendant was not acting in lawful self-defence. “The prosecution has failed in this respect [...]
Met thugs forced to pay damages for wrongful arrests
March 24th, 2010, No Comments
The wheels of justice grind slowly, redux. Metropolitian Police have to pay 6,000 pounds in damage for wrongful arrests during the G20 protests: At the time, protesters complained they were treated harshly because it had been a peaceful meeting. Some of the activists chanted “shame on you” at the officers during the raid which was [...]
Delroy Smellie and his fat beer belly
March 22nd, 2010, No Comments
The wheels of justice grind infinitely slowly, but grind they do, even if it’s almost a year after p.c. Delroy Smellie (and his fat beer belly) were caught on camera backhanding a female protestor. Don’t pay too much attention to how BBC News frames the issue in the article linked above, with its emphasis on [...]
If you do your job effectively, then you draw the government’s attentions
October 29th, 2009, No Comments
How the feds targeted one G-20 protestor: An anarchist social worker raided by the feds wants his computers, manuscripts and pick axes back. He argues that authorities violated the U.S. Constitution and the rights of his mentally ill clients while searching for evidence that he broke an anti-rioting law on Twitter. In a guns-drawn raid [...]
