Video: Locals retaliate to Police over-reaction - "Get off our streets"

Video web video of local reponse 10M mpg1 - video/mpeg 10M

What happened on the streets of Edinburgh. Coporate Media has been blaming Anti-capitalists for disruption in Edinburgh on Monday. But after penning in many people, Police made the mistake of penning in some locals. They reacted, some got arrested and many retaliated.

Many English police were drafted in and this caused a lot of bad feeling with local residents. And it really shows in this video.

The final shots show the Police retreating and leaving the streets of the city to the local residents.

This Video should be networked to all media that are reporting disturbances as international anti-capitalist movement.

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Sorry about previous mislabling - it is removed - These links to the CORRECT Video should help.

Web quality mpeg -

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2005/07/316342.mpg

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this description doesn't match the video

05.07.2005 07:06

I watched the AVI video linked to from this article (

http://indymedia.org.uk/media/2005/07/316237.avi)...

The comment says "The final shots show the Police retreating and leaving the streets of the city to the local residents." but thats not on this piece of video.

anonymous

Police getting off the streets

05.07.2005 08:45

In reply to the first comment, watch the real media piece and you'll see riot police being told in no uncertain terms where to go by local residents.

Ian Brown
mail e-mail: ianbrown@canneryrow.fsnet.co.uk

video does not match the article

05.07.2005 08:45

this is just some general footage of peaceful protect around Edinburgh (although there is some guy on the rooof of a building at the end).

GSK

j

05.07.2005 08:48

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70649&condense_comments=false#comment113426

see this

watch the realplayer version

05.07.2005 08:48

OK, the video and real player versions are different

GSK

Not the same

05.07.2005 08:50

I just watched the video and it doesn't have any of what the description says it does on it.

"Over reaction"

05.07.2005 09:07

"Many English police were drafted in..."

Am I correct to assume, then, that all the anti-capitalist protesters were Scottish?

Sinatra

h

05.07.2005 09:43

can someone convert that second to someother then rm or what other player plays rm

When one has an ideology...

05.07.2005 10:38

...it seems able to function only if another agent can be posited that believes in the ideology "more" than its proponents. In this case, the "Edinburgh locals" are posited as the new true believers, radicalised by the police.

Poppycock, as they say. I have been studying the Miami FTAA protests quite extensively, and the genuinely dispossessed inhabitants of Overtown were not uniformly impressed with the presence of white, middle-class demonstrators coming to their area, protesting and then buggering off again. Citing "local support" always seems to be chimerical in instances such as these. Where is the evidence for a genuine groundswell of local pro-anarchist activism? The Craigmiller march was quite an interesting piece, but again it seems to have been done only at the last moment after it became increasingly clear that the local community (largely unemployed) was rather lukewarm about an activist presence. Where is the genuine outreach? Without it, the term "McMovement" remains as potent as ever as a band name that descibes yesterday's tiresomely predictable guff.

John

Come on...

05.07.2005 10:45

..There is no "retreating" at all. What is this? BBC hyperbole? Just the rozzers going home at the end of the day with some locals shouting at them. Big deal.

Kate Adie

where have all the messages gone?

05.07.2005 10:53

golly, all the comments by locals which expressed dissent at monday's "actions" seem to have disappeared from your website.

suppression of free speach?
censorship of views?

now, where did i put my black flag?

trish

Censorship!!

05.07.2005 11:05

Where did the comments from Naomi, Trish and Gaynor go???

I take it we are only allowed to comment if we agree with you..... well that's a real improvement on commercial/corporate media!

Mags

AVI version please?

05.07.2005 11:19

Hello there, any chance of uploading an AVI of the 'local' footage? Thanks.

imc Eire

The acceptable face of racism

05.07.2005 11:33

Why is it presented as a good thing that some Scottish people didn't like English police getting involved? If the Daily Hate Mail ran a story about how people in Dover were angry at Kurdish asylum seekers working in 'their' town would you stand up and applaud? Moron.

Hello Sunshine

My comment

05.07.2005 12:14

I see you removed my earlier comment.
What hipocricy you people teach..!

Bob fae edinburgh

every cloud...

05.07.2005 13:46

Oi sunshine, get a grip. Since when have 'Scots' or even Angles and Saxons in this police state been a race...
Pigs are pigs, scum sucking low life of an order worth shitting on and when Outside help is brought in from a country ,lets not forget, that has persecuted, controlled and ethnically cleansed the people from these more northern reaches of our shores in the not to distant past, then for fucks sake they are asking for trouble and i wish the blakelock sandwich could have been used on the cunts who think nothing of stampeding elderly women and forcing innocent people on to spiked railings.
And the authorities would rather the 'english' pig scum get it in the neck than some of their community and beat pig scum who will have to look the locals eye to eye when these protests have subseeded. Who cares anyway. Fuck pigs. Long live Harry roberts
So get a life you pedant and stop bleedin moaning
(A)

Uv light

uv crap

05.07.2005 14:43

SInce when was the word "angles" applied to people. If you are going to diss the police, why make it so obvious you are thick and uneducated. It merely makes people dismiss your poorly formed argument.
You sound like a teenage single mother pissed off with the way her sad little council estate life is panning out.

Arlene

Anarchists ??? dont make me laugh, seen harder boy scouts

05.07.2005 15:34

Tsk! from what I have seen over here, any anarchy on the streets of Edinburgh was utterly pathetic. You lot want change, yet cant even be bothered to get out of bed and speak/act up!

Why not leave the real job of changing things and achieving social justice to experts like me.

Either put up or shut up. Now FUCK OFF back to whatever Johnny Foreigner tin pot hovel of a country you came from.

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the BASA has spoken!

the BASA
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The Basa - for real

05.07.2005 17:49

This is a comment to disassociate myself from the person posting in my name either above or below.

Peaceful demonstration is fine with me - in fact I totally encourage it and wish more people would do it.

I don't like some of the stuff that went on in Edinburgh yesterday no matter who did it.

The Basa

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05.07.2005 19:13

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RGS

blouses

05.07.2005 19:37

Jings, I've seen mair trouble fae fitba fans than you lot. away back tae where ye cam fae an let us fight the polis on matchdays.

Jambo

Got off lightly

07.07.2005 09:18

The "anarchists" got off lightly as far as I'm concerned. The police have done a fantastic job. If it had been up to me you would have all got battered tae FUCK!!!!!!!!

The Truth

Templar

07.07.2005 15:02

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Aaron

Horror at apathy and voyeurism in UK

08.07.2005 15:47

What shocks me about this video is that there was not larger solidarity with the demonstraters by local people... Do Scottish people sleep or watch laughing as 'other' people are beaten in front of their eyes, racially humilated...raped? How far can the perpatater go Scotland, before you cry out stop! In Boliva they are using dynamite. How long will it take for the people of Scotland to wake up and realise they are being fucked too? Maybe it will be too late... vive facism, vive!

They is no one thing that you rely on as a human being that does not depend on the labour of others, and the resources of the earth. We survive through co-operation.

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Horror at apathy and voyeurism in UK

08.07.2005 15:56

What shocks me about this video is that there was not larger solidarity with the demonstraters by local people... Do Scottish people sleep or watch laughing as 'other' people are beaten in front of their eyes, racially humilated...raped? How far can the perpetraiter go Scotland, before you cry out stop! In Boliva they are using dynamite. How long will it take for the people of Scotland to wake up and realise they are being fucked too? Maybe it will be too late... vive facism, vive!

There is no one thing that you rely on as a human being that does not depend on the labour of others, and the resources of the earth. We survive through co-operation.

Sub Commandante Urn Malley
Homepage: http://antimedia.net/blindauthority

Saturday Nite

08.07.2005 21:05

Any footage of Saturday nite when the Craigmillar community lay siege to the campsite there and you all had to be protected by the Police?

Muttley