As a result of resistance to the allegedly unauthorised raid (
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378258.html) the TSG - popularly known as the riot squad - assembled outside the gate to "restore order".
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378258.html) the TSG - popularly known as the riot squad - assembled outside the gate to "restore order".
Cop top brass leave the site
Penny is "unglued" from the gate
Taken from from the gate
For the duration Sipson Road - the only access to the site - was blockaded by police under an early C19th statute invoked by the C21st commissioner Sir Ian Blair.
At around 8.25 a car containing some police Top Brass - unconfirmed reports claim it was "Gold Command" - swept out of the Sipson end of the blockade and the road was re-opened.
Walking towards the camp we came across Penny - until yesterday the camp's police liason officer until resigning in disgust at their intransigence - who'd decided to engage in some real police liason and block their entrance by supergluing herself to the gates.
At around 9.15 police declared her "free" - and promptly bundled her into a police van.
At around 8.25 a car containing some police Top Brass - unconfirmed reports claim it was "Gold Command" - swept out of the Sipson end of the blockade and the road was re-opened.
Walking towards the camp we came across Penny - until yesterday the camp's police liason officer until resigning in disgust at their intransigence - who'd decided to engage in some real police liason and block their entrance by supergluing herself to the gates.
At around 9.15 police declared her "free" - and promptly bundled her into a police van.
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Superglue
15.08.2007 08:47
She would have been far better off trying to skywalk a stationary plane in the nip- fer
christsakes!
ouch
Well done Penny
15.08.2007 09:29
The legal team should also be making a complaint, even though it will not mean anyone is held to account as the IPCC are simply the propaganda wing of the police just like their predecessors.
The police will no doubt try a different tactic to cause trouble next.
A N Other
re: Superglue
15.08.2007 09:32
Corporal Punishment
IPCC
15.08.2007 11:09
The IPCC (so-called "Independent" Police Complaints Commission) have still not released the report into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, two years after he was murdered by armed police...
pig-stupid