I hope this is accurate, well done! wish i could be there...

fukin nice one ppl!

Wooo! Wish I was there :)

Keep it up.

Smash the state, and smash EDO too!

This is fantastic if true. Best of luck and much love to all those who are taking part!
xxx

Brilliant news, give them what's coming to them.

wish i was there couldn't afford the damn train

if this report is accurate, this are probably one of the best piece of news this year!

enough of F.I.T abuse!, intimidation and harrassment!

well done everyone!

Well done! Smash their fucking cameras!

FIT got footage, but they certainly found themselves obstructed and forced to back off quite often.

It wasn't just FIT out with cameras as at least two teams of real police evidence gatherers were out as well.

FIT, as usual, were little more than a side show but nice to see people giving them the amount of resepect they deserve (ie,. none)

Of course FIT got some footage, but there were times and places (usually where there was stuff they most wanted to film) where they did not get very much at all. They had particular problems at the head of the march, where FIT were repeatedly targetted with banners, placards, water and paint bombs, or were simply pushed and shoved out of the way. There have been accounts that at least four FIT cameras were damaged or 'lost'. FIT officers attempting to 'intervene' in certain incidents were forced away.

From the very beginning FIT teams struggled to operate. Sussex police evidence gatherers were forced out of the demonstration. The Puiblic Order Intelligence Unit mob with their stills cameras got very few pictures, and could operate only for short periods. There was a level of focussed hostility from the crowd against the FIT that meant they could not safely operate from within or close to the edge of the crowd. There can be no doubt that their operation was severely affected.

FIT teams operating at the head of the march outside the main 'targets' got little or no footage of events, although they were using substantial force, including baton strikes to keep FITwatchers at bay.

Later on, when people's energy levels were down, and they were protected by lines of police in riot gear, they were able to operate from behind police lines. But that is a far cry from what they used to be able to do.

Shutting down the FIT in this way was not the result of a handful of people with cameras and banners. It was the result of a lot of people taking action whenever FIT appeared. Huge respect to the Brighton demonstrators who consistently dealt with the FIT in such a determined and courageous way.

It was undoubtedly empowering to be in a space not dominated by FIT and their cameras. Brighton have shown the way in how to effectively deal with these low-life. More of it.

FITwatch did a fantastic job, everyone was organised and showed how we can resist and defeat the FIT team, and the polices efforts to stop free expression and public defiance. Well done to all the vigilant, responsive people who kept many people safe and showed the FIT where they can stick their cameras.

A very inspiring day, and a bloody nose to the forces of oppression!

just a note, I spotted at leastone definite FIT team on the day with regular riot gear and not the usual blue and yellow jackets. know their numbers and their faces and tell them to **** off!

cs 206 and cs 49, both highly undesirable scum who were born too late to be gestapo.

Fantastic news, organised resistance is the best way of dealing with them, as this shows.

Lets make sure this is the reception they get everywhere.

Glad I was in Brighton.
CS49 was a busy little boy over the weekend. Not only was his well known portly and rotund figure observed during the mayday protest but along with three car loads of his cohorts he turned up at Hove Greyhound Stadium on Sunday to try to imtimidate the 8 or so protestors campaigning to end the horrors involved in this so called sport.