Tag: Alan Murray
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Killer cops
The picture above from The Real Art of Protest is all I really need to say about the PC Harwood verdict. Disturbingly just before the Olympics that the Met can harm and kill without impunity – even when filmed they get off. Even with a history of bad behaviour that other police criticised. ‘One bad…
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Who can you trust? The Police and state propaganda war
A very strange (long) weekend, a good one for royalists, bad one for anarchists and the Met Police, and complete headache for Osama Bin Laden (it’s OK, he went for a US government sanctioned swim :-P). No link between those? Well in all three events the media has been used and spun to either pre-convict…
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Who watches the watchers? Right to film the police
Certainly the police in the UK and the US seems to have lost a lot of trust, to the point that recorded evidence (like the CCTV tape at the shooting of Jean Charles de Menenez?) goes missing and it seems that criminal cases such as the one against PC Simon Harwood who assaulted and most…
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Blair Peach’s killer revealed (1 of 6, take yer pick)
Although the identities of the 6 SPG officers, one of which killed Blair Peach have been published before in David Ransom’s book and in the Sunday Times, it’s worth repeating the names as they were redacted in the recently released Cass report (after the police sat on it for 31 years!): Inspector Alan Murray was…