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Drax Tractor driver accuses police of breaking his ankle

adelayde | 04.09.2006 10:34 | Climate Camp 2006 | Climate Chaos

Link to an article in today's Yorkshire Today where tractor driver Chris Niezen claims that the police broke his ankle during his arrest.

Yorkshire Today has an article with an interview from the tractor driver Chris Niezen:

 http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1084&ArticleID=1740415

adelayde

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lying old bastard

04.09.2006 21:38

Somebody should upload the footage of the guy driving at potesters in the field an hour or so earlier to refute this guys crap!

The guy was clearly not merely trying to drive through a gap. He had mounted the grass verge on which the protesters were cordoned in by police. The road itself was pretty clear about from a couple of dozen police vans blocking the way along with TV satelite trucks, but nether-the-less, it was probably passable using the right hand lane while the grass verge definitly was not.

As for this guys injuries... he was led away by police who had bandaged his arm and placed in an ambulance (one of two that had arrived to attend to him). Not protesters laughted at him as they were still traped by police. As he was placed in the ambulance there was pretty much just the cops and the press pack.

I find it completely unbelieviable that this guy was taken away in an ambulance in front of the national media and yet somehow his injuries were aparently not treated that day. We are meant to believe that he still hasn't had a cast on his fractures several days after his violent arrest?

What is this guy trying to pull? A fat compensation claim? He should have been arrested and charged for endangering life.

Anyway, those video bods with the footage of the tractor charge in the field, please upload it.

Oh yes, and the photo of the hockey stick the police took off him but then placed back in the tractor after his arrest!

n


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Anti Emissions! Pro Prisons?

05.09.2006 11:52

I understand that people would be frightend and distressed by having a redneck farmer run them down in his tactor, but do we as activists have to result to tacktics of calling for imprisonment, thus ligitimising the role of the police, the courts and of the prison industry itself? Should we not also be trying to build links with people who are also un/knowingly exploited by such industrys as drax and such institutions as the police. I dont know, maybe this could be open for debate. I can´t help but feel that everytime we result to the long arm of the law, we in turn ligitimise the very institutions and corporations we are trying to resist. Maybe i´m right, maybe i´m wrong, its just a feeling.............

mr X


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