Tag: Police officer
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Dismantle the Metropolitan Police
This video projected on New Scotland Yard by Led By Donkeys says everything about Metropolitan Police corruption, violence and bigotry I’ve been saying since 2009 if not before. Certainly the likes of Ian Tomlinson and Jean Charles De Menenez, as mentioned in the video were a wake up call for me, as well as few…
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Rape Me / Blurred Lines mashup
It’s usually glib clickbait to say I was left speechless at the end of this, but I was, shocked and stunned at the catharsis and anger – yet justifiably and righteously so. Blurred Lines is horribly sexist and completely unredeemable. Combining it with Nirvana’s Rape Me in a call and answer mashup just brings out…
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RC 343: Punks In The Jungle / Pigs in the Park
Following on from the events of Saturday before last in Clapham Common with the Metropolitan Police attack on the Sarah Everard vigil (a police officer has been charged with her killing, so a very bad move), I hoist the podcast as a sign in support of 97% and join in the chant of We Will…
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Sitting while black
A lot of conversations have happened since Ferguson and the murder of Michael Brown (and Eric Garner and the rest) about ‘Walking While Black’ (and quite a few about ‘Walking While Trans’ and other minorities) – people getting grief from cops that white cis straight people simply would not get. Not to mention the mealy-mouthed…
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RIP Smiley Culture
Sad to hear about the death during a police raid of Smiley Culture – ironically best known for his 1984 reggae/proto ragga hit ‘Police Officer’ with Saxon Soundsystem about the ‘sus’ stop and search laws – shame that unlike the funny end of the song this police intervention had a far sadder ending. 🙁 And…
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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…