Tag: Simon Harwood
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Police Act of Terror film
I remember this case, of Gemma Atkinson just filming her boyfriend being questioned by police who then got targeted as a ‘terrorist’ for filming her employees (police are the same as the public, as much as they pretend to be some sub-military force, they are actually paid out of our taxes, thus we are their…
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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…