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Students get the upper hand

FitWatch (repost) | 30.11.2010 23:32 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles

Students in London today did a brilliant job of avoiding and evading police kettles, keeping the coppers on the run for most of the day. Rapid movement and a spontaneous route kept the demo ahead of police lines. The Met, clearly run ragged, whinged that the demo had started too early and caught them out!

It’s easy to understand why demonstrators worked so hard to keep out of police kettles. Last week the Met kettled students and schoolkids for seven hours in freezing conditions, with bugger all concern for anyone’s health and safety.

Today there were clashes with the police as students refused to be controlled and contained. All credit to them for their determination to hold their protest, and their refusal to be ground down and dispirited by kettling tactics.

The Met’s revenge has been to carry out mass arrests of over 100 people for breach of the peace. Over the course of the day there have been a reported 153 arrests.

Elsewhere in the country there have been occupations and demonstrations, and numerous reports of kettles, clashes and police aggression. It will take a while to unravel all the accounts, but the emerging picture is that the police are looking pretty desperate, and it is the students that have the upper hand.

FitWatch (repost)
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Mass arrests at Traf Sq

01.12.2010 00:15

Just shows you how pathetic the cops are.

ACAB

Solidarity....

01.12.2010 00:22

What a fantastic job, couldn't of been there but flawless police evasion.
Fuck kettles and FUCK pigs.Were all behind you.x

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I wouldn't get too cocky

01.12.2010 17:43

In many countries they would just shoot the students - take the 1st rank out.

its all very well going "the students have the upper hand", but they haven't have they.
The police are holding back because certain people find things like that unpalatable.

If you start getting cocky they will just up the ante. I doubt students would be a match against automatic weapons

jesus christ

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