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Photos of two suspected undercover cops

wemakeundercovercopsappear | 12.06.2011 20:35 | Repression

Photos of two suspected undercover cops at Radical Media demo







At the We Make Radical Media, You Make Adverts demonstration last month, these two men showed up and took a close interest in the demonstration, including two climbers with banners up lamp posts.

After being photographed, they took the photographer to one side, bent his arm back and shoved him against a wall, and asked him what he was going to do with the pictures. They said they were cops and he shouldn't blow their cover. They behaved in a rude and offensive manner and seemed really distressed that their pictures had been taken. When asked to identify themselves they let the photographer go.

These pictures are being posted so that other activists can look out for them on future demonstrations.

wemakeundercovercopsappear
- Homepage: http://rebelliousmediaconference.org/2011/04/we-make-radical-media-you-make-adverts-2/

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i've seen them before. not suspected cops but scum cops!

12.06.2011 21:34

I've had the unfortunate pleasure of running into these two scumbags before. They are british transport police undercover cops (head quarters just round the corner from where the picture was taken). they operate a lot on the victoria and northern lines. they are dirty little fuckers.

spread the pictures far and wide.

FTP ACAB

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cops

12.06.2011 22:20

Well they must be cops because they look as if they have had a wash.

Gandolph

lol

13.06.2011 06:16

help for heroes wristband on. lol not trying to hard on the whole undercover thing eh.

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Not undercover - but plain clothes

13.06.2011 15:04

I would say that a better word to use, would be 'plain clothes cops'. I haven't met either of these myself, but it sounds as though they aren't trying too hard to disguise that they are police.

I guess they are simply just cops on duty that are wearing civilian clothing so they don't stand out. This is common on public demonstrations - I've seen well known police on demos wearing plain clothes, who, if asked would admit to being an officer - but don't announce it.

Jill

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Both the police and the activists seem unprofessional

15.06.2011 07:08

Easily detected undercover police photographed by activists who publish the serial number of their camera for search engines to cross reference.

ExifTool
 http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

reveals

Image Description : OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Make : OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.
Camera Model Name : E-PL2


Serial Number : [removed]
Lens Info : 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6
Lens : OLYMPUS M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II
Lens Serial Number : [removed]



bemused

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Still betraying Exif meta data camera serial number

16.06.2011 06:47

Instead of censorship of helpful comments , Indymedia should be amending their media file upload form to automatically strip out Exif meta data from digital camera and mobile phone images.

At the very least there should be a reminder about the potential dangers of Exif meta data in the upload instructions.

The photos on this page *still* betray the camera serial number, which will be cross referenced with past and future articles, and with any personally identifiable family photos etc. posted from the same camera to photo file sharing sites like flickr or facebook etc.

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Both the police and the activists seem unprofessional

15.06.2011 07:08
Easily detected undercover police photographed by activists who publish the serial number of their camera for search engines to cross reference.

ExifTool
 http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

reveals

Image Description : OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Make : OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.
Camera Model Name : E-PL2


Serial Number : [removed]
Lens Info : 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6
Lens : OLYMPUS M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II
Lens Serial Number : [removed]



bemused

bemused , but now censored

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censorship of comments about Exif meta data in these photos

17.06.2011 06:57

Please explain your censorship / "hiding" of my comments about the Exif meta data still visible in the photos on this page.

In what way does this contravene the "open publishing" policy ?





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