Sussex University students attacked by police on campus

These videos show police violently arresting peaceful protestors at a demonstration against job cuts at Sussex University.

Video - video/3gpp 2.4M

Video - video/3gpp 3.8M

For more information on the demonstration see

http://defendsussex.wordpress.com

anon

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Random footage

03.03.2010 22:57

It's not very contextual to put this footage of people being nicked without showing what else happened.

Anon

random footage of random arrests

03.03.2010 23:49

Thats because the arrests were random, there was no context... they left the building and we're arrested on completely false charges of 'attempt to assault an officer'. Neither of the students in question had done anything of the sort. It was just an excuse to make some arrests and intimidate the campaign. Fuck the management and fuck the police

pissed off student

Some context

04.03.2010 00:44

So the context is this-
We occupied the management building, Sussex House, got most of the staff to leave and locked it down. It was pretty awesome!
A demo formed outside to show support. At one point (not shown in the footage) the demo tried to surge forward to join the occupation.
The police were generally very heavy handed. Sadly, Sussex doesn't have many (any?) students who would actively attack cops. The actions you see the Scum taking here were completely un-provoked.

Remember, this was us on our own university.
Thats some context, for more see www.defendsussex.wordpress.com

Occupier

more info

04.03.2010 18:19

Have you got any video footage of these people doing nothing?
Because its hard to tell, it only shows the immediate arrest

Steve

not arrested

10.03.2010 16:23

with management victimising students involved and a high court injunction in effect, nobody's going to be providing more footage on demand to anonymous people on the internet.

however, if you think these people might have done something to deserve it - the police don't. the videos do not show arrests, bit people were released within minutes. these are technically 'stop and searches' under PACE Section 1. even the police aren't alleging the people they attacked did anything wrong.

anarchist