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Policing a demo in Manchester

copwatch | 21.09.2008 18:10 | Repression

Some photos of cops at yesterday's demo, doing their stuff.

horses at the front
horses at the front

cops start stirring things up
cops start stirring things up

you can't use your sounds
you can't use your sounds

a visiting cop
a visiting cop

visiting cop again
visiting cop again

the gatherers of 'evidence' plan their photos
the gatherers of 'evidence' plan their photos

police paperwork
police paperwork

more police paperwork
more police paperwork

still more police paperwork
still more police paperwork

no going back
no going back


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copwatch

Additions

Start of march

21.09.2008 18:48

line-dancing
line-dancing

Just before start of march, across oxford road, posing for the camera.

camera shy

Block cops

21.09.2008 19:00

Block cops, right side of block
Block cops, right side of block

Top block cop, AKA stirrer from above
Top block cop, AKA stirrer from above

Block cop spot, always at side of block
Block cop spot, always at side of block

Long suffering cops marching close on the side of 'Freedom of Movement' block.

more camera shy

Cops watching cops

21.09.2008 19:52

Had to laugh when I heard that coppers are holding secret meetings for fear of being spied on by ..other coppers. Seems they too enjoy the anonymity offered by pay-as-you-go phones and checking their rooms for bugs. Here's a link to a bbc report:
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7628044.stm

I spy

id police

22.09.2008 00:53


key
sgt= sargent
egt= evidence gathering team
officer = beat officer (foot fascist)


HEAR ARE A LOAD OF BADGE NUMBERS FROM THE DEMO

EGT 17515
SGT EGT 12902
EGT 19157
EGT 13099

OFFICER 5722
OFFICER 17423
OFFICER 3076
OFFICER 1895
OFFICER 12802
OFFICER F 3542

SGT 02969

you dont need to know that

PIGS

22.09.2008 03:23





this cop tried to start a riot
this cop tried to start a riot



pictures of the pigs

that makes it too easy for the state to locate me sorry
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cop watch

22.09.2008 09:57

numbers: STWC says 5,000
police say 2,500

at the beginning of the march as the freedom of movement bloc was assembling the cops had a 'photo album' with ca. 12 pictures on each page. This is what they used to identify people on the bloc.

@

"Visiting Cop"

22.09.2008 10:42

The cop in the photo captioned "visiting cop", in the blue jacket, is SULLY, of the Met. He has been a FIT cop for years. See Fitwatch website for more.

AntiFIT

Rally pics - an idea of numbers

22.09.2008 13:51

Front stage (yawn)
Front stage (yawn)

back right (facing stage)
back right (facing stage)

back left (facing stage)
back left (facing stage)

For what it's worth... an idea of numbers from pics of those who stayed for interesting speeches...

Anarchist anti-war

Comments

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Why were there so few people on the march?

22.09.2008 08:19

Why were there so very few people on the latest anti-war march. From the photos there seems to be only around a few hundred people present. Why was the turnout so very, very low????

Anti-war activist

Why were there so few people on the march?

22.09.2008 09:30

Because the Manchester scene is so infiltrated with cops that most activists kept away rather than ending up in the local nick being searched and their kit stolen AGAIN !

info giver

not very exciting is it

22.09.2008 14:52

seeing a foto line up of coppers doing not very much. me thinks some peeps getting over egotistical with this fitwatch milarky. instead of watching them all the time why not try and avoid them...........like use yer imagination innit..............

nobody in particular

to nobody in particular

22.09.2008 15:29

Avoiding cops is fine and dandy...do as much of it as you can! But, y'know, some folks they like to be able to gather together in large (ish) numbers, which is generally a good thing. Except it gets a lot harder to avoid the cops.

So, we take 'em on instead. And fitwatch is that hated by coppers, it's gotta be doing something right...

someone