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Climate Camp: Pics of Police Confiscating Bikes from Car Park

vlc_crew | 06.08.2008 10:40 | Climate Camp 2008 | Climate Chaos | Repression | London

Screen grabs from the video showing police cutting locks off bicycles next to the Climate Camp and confiscating them.

Video and report at:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/08/405517.html

Police cutting locks off bike
Police cutting locks off bike

Taking bikes away
Taking bikes away

Refusing to talk about it
Refusing to talk about it


In the video the police refuse to say why they are taking the bikes,

vlc_crew

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Cops = tthieves

06.08.2008 12:04

Should've performed a citizens arrest on them for theft.

Happy camper

The usual excuse is....

06.08.2008 12:24

The usual excuse is.... in central London in anycase as I often see that it "may contain a bomb" dispite the fact just around the corner there are cars, vans, taxis, buses, lorries parked. What happens in London is that the poor person who bike been nicked by the coppers has to go and pick it up from the station dispite the fact there's no warning about no parking your bike in the area.

If it were a bomb as they say, it's funny that they take it inside the Police Station.

I wonder what the real reason is. Unsightly? Who knows.

loppy

reason

06.08.2008 13:13

given, i imagine, is that dangerous domestic extremists use bike locks to 'commit criminal damage' i.e. to render a st of gates unusable for their purpose by locking them shut. they're trying to make sure nobody can do anthing, overstretching their powers, safe in the knowledge that they will always be justified in court. scum.

@TP

RTFM

06.08.2008 16:26

It should be easy to work out why they took the bikes away, won't it be in that document that the police dropped the other day?

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/08/405393.html

I would be so pissed off if that was my bike. Apart from having to walk to the station they would spend 2-6 hours to get it out of the basement, telling you in that time that the only way to get it back would be at a police auction, weeks away and tens of miles away.

Lance Armstrong

lowest of the low

07.08.2008 21:54

the cops really are desperate aren't they.
what a pitiful and lowly thing to do.

well, i guess when you're tired of using sketchy laws from a partially fabricated netcu handbook to no avail, i guess the only thing left to turn to is theft of innocent people's property..

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