You gotta love the police

[andrewducker]

Go here.  Watch the video.  Remember it.  I am sincerely hoping that this is the event that turns the tide on the police state we're sliding into.

Thank goodness for the transparent society.  They've always been able to watch us - now we have the technology to watch them.

Comments

[meihua.livejournal.com]

Actually, wasn't whoever recorded that video was breaking the law? We're not meant to take pictures of police officers any more. (Fucking stupid law.)

[andrewducker]

That's not exactly true. The criteria is:
"eliciting, publishing or communicating information" relating to members of the armed forces, intelligence services and police officers, which is "likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism".

So taking photographs of the police which aren't useful for preparing an act of terrorism is just fine. Of course, that line's very open to interpretation - especially by police in the heat of the moment.

[0olong.livejournal.com]

Surely any footage which shows the police abusing their powers is likely to lead indirectly to those powers being reduced, and hence be useful to TERRORISTS and other such undesirables?

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing this, just saw it on my Guardian RSS. Get it out there.

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Saw this earlier, put it on my twitter, and it's disappeared (but not before getting copied to LJ)....

[0olong.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness indeed.

I hope this event does indeed turn the tide... it's been disgusting to me to watch police tactics in 'policing' demonstrations receive so little critical attention from the media or politicians. Kettling, charging people who are clearly no kind of a threat: These things are abusive, plain and simple. It's hard to imagine them ever having a legitimate place in the policing of demonstrations, yet they've gone almost completely unchallenged in routine usage for something like a decade now.

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

If not longer.

[the-locster.livejournal.com]

Channel 4 have additional footage:

http://www.channel4.com/news/article.jsp?id=3076487