brian's extended display
nuj journalist after his assault
police thug that did it according to two witnesses
one of amny arrests
apt symbol behind a sea of cops
superintendent 'terry the tosser' as brian likes to call him
gagged
nuj journalist marc valee was seriously injured and as he lay shaking on the ground, the cop that assaulted him was pointed out to me by two different witnesses. U1219, photo shown above, continued to stand in line, and despite complaints to superintendent terry, he was not taken off duty. let's hope that when it comes to court it will be the end of this man's career, and the start of a long jail sentence, for willfully assaulting a professional journalist and hospitalising him.
meanwhile, a police briefing was overheard - the police were told they had no power to detain, threaten, or remove anyone from the square who was not actively demonstrating. that didn't stop them threatening, detaining and actively threatening anyone in the vicinity. stories are now emerging of many, many people being turned away from the area on threat of arrest, and unfortunately, far too many took these threats at face value. in fact, any such arrests would have been unlawful and the police knew it. where people did stand up to their lies, they were sometimes subject to violence and assault instead. i was personally assaulted twice, and physically moved by police acting unlawfully on another occasion, despite the fact i was cleary documenting the event rather than 'demonstrating'.
some of those arrested were held in handcuffs for several hours, only cheered by the sounds of the soilidarity samba band outside charing cross station in the late afternoon and early evening. this form of detention is unlawful under pace guidelines. one man had his home searched by cops without a warrant after they told his faltmates they needed to find something with his name and address on it to verify where he lived. this was unlawful.
one young woman was given a stop and search form after being forced to give her name and address, but she was never actually searched. another young woman was searched, but not given a stop and search from. bizarrely, when she said she was homeless she was threatened with arrest unless she gave an address, and police suggested she make up an address or face arrest - unlawful, but maybe not such a bad precedent for us all.
it would be useful to correlate other examples of police unlawful or violent action and put it all together. it might be very useful to human rights lawyers who are working on judicial reviews of this nonsensical socpa law.
i'd be happy to work on this if you want to send me your stories (off the record and not for publication if you like) - it would also be useful to all, if arrestees work together and compare prosecution and defence aspects of their cases. there's also a lot of folk out there who would like to know what's going on. suggestions of better ways to do this gratefully accepted, otherwise, i'm happy to do what i can if you want to send me info.
also those stories of people threatened and turned away from the area before the demo - they'd be very interesting, and if we can collect enough, perhaps there's scope for getting lawyers busy on a judicial review to stop it ever happening again.
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Report the pigs to Copwatch.org
12.10.2006 14:45
Freedom Fighter
Stop and Search
12.10.2006 15:57
Although the attendance at this event was poor I was encouraged by the radical nature of the event.
Keith
Typical Hippy Comments from the above posters...
12.10.2006 22:06
If you thought you had a genuine complaint, make it via the IPCC. That fact you haven't speaks volumes. And the fact you present no real evidence to support your spurious allegations.
Sounds to me like PC1279 did his job properly.
Legal Eagle
COCK UP.
13.10.2006 09:00
Stop calling actions that involve a hand full of people around London that you are going to end up getting slapped.
This was on a Monday. Most of us who could have come were working....
BRAINACHE
PC 1279?
13.10.2006 09:18
Oi!
k8e
13.10.2006 19:37
katie ducsali