Police have so far paid out £250,000 in damages to people arrested over the G20 protests, "the bulk of it to 66 activists held during a controversial raid on a squatted building." Sound a little familiar?

"Police paid £250,000 in compensation to people arrested over G20 protests"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/09/police-pay-dam...rests


From the footage I've seen of the Stokes Croft riots it looks like there's plenty of scope for people to begin claiming damages against the Police, and to turn the tables back on them.

These damages, plus the 'unlawful killing' of Ian Tomlinson hardly put the Police in a position to be given any benefit of the doubt regarding events on a more local level.

In the longer term any funds the Police manage to secure from central government to pay for their provocative and brutal policing in Bristol, may well end up being diverted back into the hands of local residents.

"Extra funds could pay for tackling Bristol riots"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-13339388

This money, depending on the inclinations of each claimant, could then be ploughed back into compensating local businesses for lost custom, and even to start new ones, securing our own redevelopement of the area along non-corporate lines.

So, I would suggest it's time to now start turning the tables on the Police, to bring them to book, and to turn the screws on any funding they may receive, and to divert those funds back into the community.

To reuse some of the language the Police have used against protestors in Bristol...

It's time Police were now "hunted down relentlessly" while "leaving no stone unturned" in pursuit of this.

Legally speaking of course!