G20 'Kettling'

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"Baton charges and kettling: police's G20 crowd control tactics under fire"

Essentially, kettling is the police tactic of ignoring violent protesters in any given demonstration (the minority) to focus upon the passive majority.

The aim being to split up the body of the crowd so that the violent minority dissipate.

Baton charges and kettling: police's G20 crowd control tactics under fire

* Sandra Laville and Duncan Campbell
* The Guardian, Friday 3 April 2009

Police stop G20 protesters

Police tactics of containing thousands of people for several hours at the Bank of England protests and using batons against climate camp protesters were condemned yesterday as an infringement of the right to demonstrate.

In the aftermath of the G20 protests in the City of London, politicians, demonstrators and a former police officer raised concerns about the methods used by the Metropolitan police to control crowds of more than 5,000.

Eyewitnesses said hundreds of environmental demonstrators camping out along Bishopsgate in a peaceful protest during the day were cleared from the area aggressively by riot police with batons and dogs after nightfall on Wednesday.

The police had earlier said they would ask the protesters, whom they acknowledged were peaceful, to move as night fell. Commander Simon O'Brien, said his officers would be "politely and proportionately" asking campers to move on.

But one eyewitness, Martin Horwood, the Liberal Democrat MP for Cheltenham, said dogs were used on protesters near the camp. James Lloyd, a legal adviser in the camp, said riot police forcefully cleared the area using batons around midnight.

"There was no announcement, the riot police just started moving forward very quickly from the south," he said. "They were pushing everyone back, pushing forward quickly. They caused panic, people were screaming and shouting ... There was a person in a wheelchair struggling to move, being pushed forcibly by them. It was totally disproportionate."

Another eyewitness, Ashley Parsons, said: "The violence perpetrated against so many around me over that hour was sickening and terrifying.

"Without warning, from around midnight, the police repeatedly and violently surged forwards in full riot gear, occasionally rampaging through the protest line and deliberately destroying protesters' property, some officers openly screaming in pumped-up rage."

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So... this is an example of the UK Police "kettling" technique....

While Chavs and Pikeys were smashing windows and the police were ignoring that fact, this is what they were doing to the hippies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqAhOWJfGYY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJqQAr4yQjQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gnm2l-bIeA

Outrageous isn't it?

(ignore the annoying cockney who is narrating in the last vid, I'd twat him myself).....

However, in short......

If you search online for G20 police brutality, there is lots out there......

There are always two sides to every story, but in this instance (and is far too apparent these days) the pople with power tend to take the piss!!!!

But, I have to say - on behalf of the 'establishment', that the rioters are calling for a communist state?!

Do you think that they would have been allowed to protest in the first place if we were [a communist state]?

It's all so complicated!