London Indymedia

Parliament Square 3.40pm

Doug | 08.10.2007 14:43 | SOCPA | Social Struggles | London

Protesters break out.

All traffic blocked. Police outnumbered. Sit down.

Doug

Additions

Witness notes and things...

08.10.2007 17:00

The police only let the demo arrive bit by bit at Parliament Sq, marching a section at a time into the corraled off pen opp. Parliament. Finally one group of mainly young people tired of waiting pushed through police lines. Here one (or two?) people were nicked. The arrest of the guy nicked by Westminster Bridge was way over the top. Although he asked for people for help, with three officers holding him down, administering pressure point holds and then handcuffing him, it wasnt going to happen. They had him face down with his legs bent over up and over each other and of course enjoyed pushing on his legs when he struggled a bit. Ouch!

Later, when the sit down happened StW stewards were asking the group of 50 people blocking the road from 3.30 onwards to get up and march into the pen that was provided to keep the protest all in one place.

acab

Comments

Display the following comment

  1. thanks — richy

Kollektives

Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World

Other UK IMCs
Bristol/South West
London
Northern Indymedia
Scotland

London Topics

Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista

London IMC

Desktop

About | Contact
Mission Statement
Editorial Guidelines
Publish | Help

Search :

Major Coverage

Mayday 2007
No Borders Days of Action 06
M18 Anti War
Mayday 2006
Refugee Week 2006
SOCPA
Day of Action Against Migration Controls
DSEi 2005
ESF 2004
Server Seizure
May Day 2004
2003 Bush Visit
DSEi 2003
May Day 2003
No War Feb 15

London links

London Links

Spaces
rampART search
Bowl Court search
56a Infoshop search
LARC search
Pogo Cafe search

Groups/Projects
Offline/InfoUsurpa
No Borders search
Rising Tide search
Freedom Bookshop search
Advisory Service For Squatters search
RoR samba band search
Space Hijackers search
LDMG search

Campaigns
Disarm DSEi search
Food Not Bombs search
London No2ID search

Bikes Not Bombs
Climate Camp

Regular Events
Critical Mass search
Anarchist Bookfair search
Anarchist Forum

UK IMCs

IMC UK

iMobile Page
Photo Page
Indymedia Cinema
Video Page
Radio Page
Offline Newsheet History

Other IMCs