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My naiivity?! Don't make me laugh!
I've just seen a video of a Just Stop Oil protestor who was arrested on saturday "for doing nothing" when they have been disrupting people's lives for months on end by sitting in roads. You honestly don't think they would have done that?
If the police watched them and felt they were about to commit an offence it's fair game to stop them.
As we know, many hundreds peacefully protested and no one has an issue with that. But if people are about to commit disorder or crime with no regard for anyone else at all, then I think it's part of the police's job to prevent that.
Again, this has been bought upon them by themselves, thinking they can do what the hell they like when they like. Well, you can't. None of us can. I can't block whatever street I like for a reason of my choosing and there be no consequences.
Do you think I could turn up at Swansea City today in a Cardiff City shirt chanting fk the jacks and lay in front of the main road and the police should just watch me?
The problem is anyone in authority can rely upon "intelligence" to execute any arrest they wish. Even though that "intelligence" is contrived or flimsy. I would have thought the Hillsborough example would be sufficient for you to be wary about police actions and motives. Yes anyone who blithely supports the extension of police powers in matters of protest is definitely naive in my opinion.
User-block reinforcement. So sweet.
Exhibit A.
The 'explanation' from the tuggers is going to be so contrived it will make your eyes water.
About to commit an offence of chanting a slogan that doesn't scan? An offence of filming an abuse of police powers before they had time to hide their collar numbers (in clear contravention of the Orgreave Protocols)? An offense of preventing a representative of the Met leaning on that particular piece of railing whilst incoherently wondering aloud what law has been broken to justify the actions they had already decided on?
It will be barrel scraping of the most embarrassing kind.
I am not a great fan of police being too heavy handed dealing with peaceful protest.
But I am equally not a fan of 40 second twitter clips purporting to show the full story of an incident. ( you do love your twitter Bob)
If the police have incorrectly arrested a journalist then someone should get a rap over the knuckles.
The overnight news suggests a few of them have had their knuckles rapped.
Your comment on Twitter sounds a bit James Walesish Elwood (because I've seen what Just Stop Oil have done in the past, they must be guilty this time). Twitter can be a cess pool at times, but it doesn't mean everything on there is like that - I had a similar view to that a few years ago, but changed my mind once I actually opened an account on there.
On Saturday morning there was a guy tweeting exactly what would happen in the met response.
A few individual (low rank of course) officers being publicly reprimanded for being over zealous and over interpreting the law was on the list actually. All so predictable.
And on the radio today the met say they "regret" their actions and no charges to be brought. Im no conspiracy theorist but those press releases were probably written a few weeks ago.
Wonder what those on here have to say now?
1. Lied repeatedly and egregiously to the entire population but particularly the "working class".
2. Ran down the NHS - effectively privatizing parts of the service and failing to fund it sufficiently to cope with an ageing population's needs.
3. In real terms?
4. Fed a populist, racist narrative to offer simplistic views that enabled bigotry on a mass scale.
5. See 4 except picked on minorities who need support not isolation by bigots.
Any more one-eyed bullshit you want to offer?