Tag: police
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My response to CPS dropping charges re: Ian Tomlinson
Just sent this as a response to the news that amazingly CPS has dropped all charges against the officer that hit and pushed Ian Tomlinson: You can add your comment at the CPS website: I am disgusted at the CPS verdict re: Ian Tomlinson. It’s amazing that an officer of the law can baton and…
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Police detain young NUJ photojournalist for working taking pictures of Army cadets
This is pitiful – young NUJ photojournalist Jules Mattsson takes pictures of an army cadet parade and gets aggro from the police for doing so – maybe they should bone up on the law and the recent cases they’ve lost re: photography in public places. Nice that the NUJ and BJP are behind this photographer…
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By The Time I Get to Arizona 2010 by Toki Wright
Credit: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Toki Wright from Rhymesayers has made a timely and topical remake of the Public Enemy classic, referring to the recent sad events in Arizona re: immigration, making stop and search possible even if you ‘look’ illegal (you know how I hate those ‘sus’ stop and searches, be it photographers, muslims, latinos, whatever).…
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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…
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going dark…
Inevitable, and given the silly responses to open P2P and bittorrent, the way it’s going…and very hard if not possible to police, and yes supports all kinds of groups including the ones you’d rather not play with (military and child pr0n, hmm) but still…publicly offline is the new online! See you there? I wonder if…
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I Love the Love Police; yet I hate the fake/real Police
I’ve posted about them before (their excellent and funny Canary Wharf video I think as part of their ‘Everything is OK’ series) but I love how Charlie and co. deal with the Fake Bacon (aka Hobby Bobbies, aka PCSOs). They really do seem to be a menace, as they pop up a lot in Section…