Manchester says "peace" with flowers -photos
Chris Edwards | 07.04.2003 21:04
Manchester says "peace" with flowers -photos
Manchester says "peace" with flowers -photos
Even with an innocuous protest like this, the police showed up and tried to arrest one of the organisers for chalking anti-war slogans on the ground! See the video elsewhere in the newswire. You would think the cops would have something better to do with their time like arresting the British war criminals who authorised the killing innocent women ans children in Iraq.
Chris Edwards
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chalk and albert
07.04.2003 22:13
serious point though.. does anyone know if it is actually criminal damage (as the cop told me) to use chalk on a wall or monument, when chalk doesn't actually damage anything?
heather
they can do you just for chalk!
08.04.2003 10:28
"You commit the offence of criminal damage if you destroy or damage property or threaten to destroy or damage property, either intentionally or recklessly, without lawful excuse: Section 1(1) of the Criminal Damage Act 1971. The damage does not have to be permanent and even if it is graffiti made with chalk which will wash away with rain it may still be criminal damage. There is a specific defence of 'lawful excuse' set out in the Criminal Damage Act, which basically states that if you believed that the destruction of the property was necessary to protect neighbouring property, which was in immediate need of protection, then you have a defence. The classic example of this defence is breaking down your neighbour's door in order to put out a fire. "
ClaireG