For younger viewers it started with City fans rattling the shutters of the pie bar when they ran out of pies and ended with police horses charging down the crowded concourse.
A thread about protesters
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I know a cop (City fan) who was assaulted by dibble that day.....cops were laughing afterwards too.
Think that was the first time that stand had been used.
The battle of Barnsley.
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Did Johnson really think "Kill the bill" at protests meant "the bill" as in police, rather than the Police and Crime Bill? (During PMQ yesterday.) The Speaker took it that way and sort of rebuked Johnson. Did Johnson mean it that way, or did the Speaker misunderstand?
Not news of course. Except in the Express which thinks it "shames" Labour.
12 min 30 on:
Not news of course. Except in the Express which thinks it "shames" Labour.
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Next the BBC will be rearranging footage so it looks like the police were attacked first...
I'm generally supportive of the police but we all know what things felt like if we rolled up at a game and police were already lined up in riot gear (West Midlands, regularly), or that crazy day at Millmoor where the force that gave us Hillsborough (and the pie riot) cleared out the Rotherham pubs, kettled the fans for 20 minutes then marched them the long way round to deliver them at the turnstiles five minutes before kick-off.
How they deal with the fringe radicals who would hijack a peaceful protest is another matter, but it seems obvious that the new powers would be used in a way that would more quickly turn any peaceful protest into an unpeaceful one.
And, while here, how daft it is that the police are not priority for being vaccinated.
Why is no one protesting about wattsapp and other encrypted services that are allowing perverts and paedophiles to groom youngsters and the law can't touch them?
They see happy to protest about not being able to protest but not about important issues like this.
They see happy to protest about not being able to protest but not about important issues like this.
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I watched a documentary on netflix about industrial sea fishing ......groups campaigning about plastics overlook the plastic waste from fishing (abandoned nets etc) accounting for plenty more than plastic straws...yet they don't mention fishing being an issue as they get paid by canning companies for their sustainable marks on their tins of tuna etc.
The world is mental.......protesting about all the wrong things.
That is the kind of answer certain pretend journalists would give.
The national news covered it again today, a young girl groomed to send explicit pictures to a nonce but it is all encrypted and no one seems arsed. These are very sad dangerous times for youngsters, suicide is sometimes something they see as the only answer
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If you wanna arrange one i'm in. Unfortunately it wont last long as the new bill that was being protested about means it would be shut down and dispersed immediately.
The law spends a lot of time on social media and the dark web chasing paedos. Great series, although very disturbing, on this recently shown on tv. Will try and find a link.
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Undercover Police: Hunting Paedophiles
A specialist covert police unit tracks sexual predators online
www.channel4.com
A very hard watch at times.
But that is exactly my point. If you think that is a very hard watch, (and you're right) think of the poor copper who does that every single day, so why are we allowing companies to have encryption?Undercover Police: Hunting Paedophiles
A specialist covert police unit tracks sexual predators onlinewww.channel4.com
A very hard watch at times.
The law has supposedly caught up with pay as you go mobile phones in an effort to stop drug dealers and yet encryption means it is so easy, they don't need these out dated phones.
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You're out of your depth.
If you give a stuff about this start a new thread, trying to conflate this with that is classic whataboutism, and far from highlighting an issue it diminishes it, because you've used it as a slight of hand.
Ergh the origin of this thread was about the London protests, it then moved onto other issues. I haven't done whataboutism, it changed course some while ago but why let a fact get in the way.
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You are out of your depth.
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You'll have to forgive misty, he doesn't really have your experience and knowledge of protests or policing.His conflation and whataboutery is a clear attempt to derail the thread from its central point of wanting womens rights for climate change during stop and search in a society where black lives matter and the police stand idly by while we protest at their brutality.