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Photos of undercover cops operating as black-bloc in anti-austerity protests

Street Lights | 28.09.2012 09:09 | Policing | Public sector cuts | Repression

Photos of undercover cops operating as black-bloc in anti-austerity protests

Two hoodies + riot cop arrest protestor in Madrid

The same 2 hoodies (top of photo, in blue light) + riot cops finalizing arrest

These images are from the RT (TV) news coverage of the massive Madrid demo on Sept 25. The first image (1:36 into the Youtube video) shows 2 undercover cops, wearing jeans and black-bloc style hoodies, dragging a protestor along the ground by his arms. The hoodie on the left then drops the protestor's right arm, as a helmeted and truncheon-carrying riot cop takes over, grabbing the protestor's leg (2nd and 3rd images). Another cop joins in as they continue dragging the protestor towards the police van (4th image). Then the 2nd undercover cop rejoins the 1st hoodie (as picked-out by the blue light), both helping the uniformed cops to complete the arrest (5th image). Click on the images to enlarge. You can see the full sequence within the original video here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ8yNywAOEk

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same old routine

28.09.2012 14:59

this is why we have to be smart and on the look out constantly on the frontline. cops have always done this, once you have been on the streets enough you get used to spotting undercovers.
plainclothes is actually a better term, as usually they still use radios and have batons.

stay alert

fran