outside the Israeli Embassy tonight - photos

fil | 04.01.2009 00:03 | Palestine

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Wide Reports Of Police Brutality Before Marches Reach Israeli Embassy

04.01.2009 02:09

There were wide reports of major police brutality when protesters were lead in to the under pass by Picadilly were they were met by rows of riot police and block by riot police at the back, keeping them trapped in the tunnel. The riot police then proceeded to charge the protesters, trambling and stamping on them and hitting them with batons. One man was hospitalised. This was verified in an article on the times online site (see 3rd paragraph) :

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5439500.ece

and by George Galloway who accompanied by his two daughters was in the trapped crowd, and who the police allowed to leave the tunnel. Perhaps they should be as concerned about beating up and hospitalising normal citizens as they are about unleashing their brutal violence on an MP. Not least when those people are simply exercising their democratic right to protest.

Max

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nice

04.01.2009 00:19

two trouble makers smashing up stuff. good photo evidence

twa

good pics

04.01.2009 00:20

good pictures...thanx for posting x

bull

to twa

04.01.2009 00:27

wasnt just 2 trouble makers smashing stuff up ..no one was trouble maker ..the only troyble makers was the police who start the agressions and send people to hospital..was many many people defending themselfess...uor name or nickname shudnt be twa but TWAT ........or u r fascist , cop or ignorant the scum of the world ....go fuk yourself cunt ...by da way is any evidence in that pic ...thanx for that ah ah ah

anon

no

04.01.2009 00:34

i saw a video on youtube. the police were just standing there doing nothing and these guys were throwing fences at them. just like the photos. troublemakers, looking for trouble

twa

Where the snatch squads busy?

04.01.2009 00:41

Because a couple of people there look like they know how to handle a baton.

Sovereign

to anon

04.01.2009 01:02

I suggest you try and drain some of your testosterone away as you seem to have a large surfeit of it. Over the last week, you've been doing nothing positive at all but have been spamming this site with numerous aggressive ungrateful comments towards many contributors who are doing their best to keep selfish idiots like you as well as the more tolerant readers informed with the situation on the streets. The only news you seem to want to hear is violence being directed towards the cops. Any intelligent person will recognise that this will achieve little except alienate the public from pro Palestine demos. Believe it or not, the fact that 50,000+ were on the streets and 10,000 or so made it to the embassy is actually more important and newsworthy than a few fireworks and sticks being thrown ineffectually at the police.

You're annoying everyone so now please either chill or go away forever.

hacked off Palestinian supporter.

Guy in the top photo...

04.01.2009 01:25

Is it me, or is the guy in the top photo also in the bottom photo to the right? He seems remarkably unscathed and untroubled by the police, despite quite evidently attacking them in the top pic and alleged police heavy-handedness.

From my personal experience, the police were restrained for the bulk of the afternoon, but it was clear to most people there that the event was degenerating thanks to a bunch of thugs intent on violence. Those with two brain cells hung back from the front of the crowd and didn't get involved when the inevitable scuffles broke out.

The solidarity movement really doesn't need violent clashes - it's going to put people off turning out to future marches.

anon

not again

04.01.2009 01:55

yeah, the guy with new balance trainers on. It did seem there were some people real intent on getting a reaction from the police. I'm probably not going to go again to much agro.

Quentin

even if you disagree with tactics, only scum would support the cops

04.01.2009 02:02

Even if you disagree with the tactics of physically attacking the police, only the lowest sort of grass would wish the people involved be arrested. The police aren't a neutral body there to keep the peace, they are there to maintain the status quo.

I often disagree with people over tactics, but I would NEVER wish for them to be arrested. To side with the police is to side with the oppressors.

I can only hope that the posters here hoping the demonstrators were arrested are police agent provocateurs.

@non

Response to Anon and TWA

04.01.2009 02:24

When hundreds of civilians are being killed.. while our government is complicit with that... and while Israel brandishes it's self across the media with lies and support from the world leaders while it carries out genocide. People get upset and angry, the bombs are still dropping, the tanks and artillery are moving in. The police have been building up to crushing the protests outside the Israeli Embassy from the very beginning.

I have been protesting peacefully alongside protesters all week at the Israeli Embassy, the only time I've seen any aggression from the crowd is when the police have push and shoved and tried to stamp (often literally) their authority on peaceful protesters.

Be very sceptical about some of the comments on Indymedia as they often come from departments in the Metropolitan police, like the Forward Intelligence Team F.I.T, who are they harass and discourage protesters. It's strange we need that in a free democratic country that was built on freedom of speech.

Max

The only reason the police were restrained for the bulk of the afternoon...

04.01.2009 02:36

The only reason the police were restrained for the bulk of the afternoon, if you haven't forgotten that there were FA/Football Matches being played today & the usual Saturday night troubles to attend for whilst you lot cause trouble. So I suspect there were no police back up. Anyway it seem to be a new tactic these day to pick off the trouble makers when things have calm down with a morning police raid...

loppy

Athens, Paris, Berlin & London

04.01.2009 12:19

Keep rioting!!!

Best pics yet!

insurrection now

cunt

05.01.2009 21:43

ah ah ah ...u make laught ..... to hacked palistian people this is my ansewr to you ......GO FUK YOURSELF COP LOVER .................you are the only asshole .....or u are a cop or you are cop lover so once more GO FUK YOURSELF ............spark in athens , fire in paris insurrection is coming .......... and we are getting prepared ........see you in the barricades

anon

Bye Bye Georgie

05.01.2009 22:49

so george galloway fucks off again! great example of the class warrior georgie boy, now do us all a favour and fuck off up yer own arse

tosy

Common police tactic called a kettle,box people in,use provocatuers or

06.01.2009 09:41

up for special units to antogonise people, e voila instant riot & media story. Ive seen again & agai& I know people in BBC who see it repeatedly & arent allowed to report

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jceyqTzA4o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC0aPF-u6rY

http://www.palestinecampaign.org/Index5b.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=3&l2_id=19
Be good when video of riot police teargassing& charging people including women & kids in the tunnel gets out.

Common police tactic called a kettle,box people in,use provocatuers or

06.01.2009 09:42

up for special units to antogonise people, e voila instant riot & media story. Ive seen again & agai& I know people in BBC who see it repeatedly & arent allowed to report

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jceyqTzA4o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC0aPF-u6rY

http://www.palestinecampaign.org/Index5b.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=3&l2_id=19
Be good when video of riot police teargassing& charging people including women & kids in the tunnel gets out.