police violence
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15 Years of Resistance
In April 2009, police brutally attacked G20 protesters in London. Ian Tomlinson was struck over the head by a police baton, and died from his injuries minutes later. The massive policing operation that day was so violent that nearly 300 complaints were made against the police. Ian wasn’t a protester, he was a newspaper vendor who had been caught… Continue reading
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Submission: Clapham Common and Bristol Protests
15 April 2021 — NetPol Riot officers outside Bristol police station, 22 March 2021. PHOTO: Miles Cooper Submission to the Inquiry Into Respect For The Constitutional Rights To Free Expression And Free Assembly At The Clapham Common Vigil On 13 March 2021 And The Bristol Protests In March 2021. Continue reading
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Figures reveal scale of Bristol protesters injured by police
At least 62 people injured by police violence in Bristol, new figures reveal. With significant misreporting from the media Bristol #KillTheBill protests, including false reports from Avon and Somerset police that officers had received injuries including broken bones, Bristol Defendant Solidarity have been recording instances of police violence and injuries sustained by people attending the… Continue reading
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US: Media Are Slowly Starting to Be Serious About Police Violence
As the George Floyd protests against police violence erupted around the nation, a massive amount of evidence of police brutality was widely captured through social media. Unfortunately, very little of it made it to mainstream outlets until much later. Continue reading
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The UK is Not Innocent – Police Racism Has a Long and Violent History Here Too
“I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe.” This desperate refrain has once again become the dying words of yet another black man in the United States. Continue reading
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Ramsey Orta Can’t Breathe By Josmar Trujillo
When we went to a New York state prison to visit Ramsey Orta, the young man who filmed a police officer choking Eric Garner to death on a Staten Island sidewalk in 2014, we didn’t even make it past the metal detectors. When we arrived at Fishkill, we put our belongings into a locker and… Continue reading
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Ramsey Orta Can't Breathe By Josmar Trujillo
When we went to a New York state prison to visit Ramsey Orta, the young man who filmed a police officer choking Eric Garner to death on a Staten Island sidewalk in 2014, we didn’t even make it past the metal detectors. When we arrived at Fishkill, we put our belongings into a locker and… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 