Bristol #KillTheBill protests

[Johnny Yesno]

It seems Tuesday evening's trouble kicked off when the dibble moved in to clear the peaceful camp on College Green (approx 3h25m):

Bristol -Police move in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGQ-NWn43Pc

More here:

Bristol -Police move in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62pu54trTk4

The testy exchanges between Tyrant and his assistant Dan are quite entertaining too. At 20m46s:

Tyrant: Last time I'm gonna tell you again [...] you'll be sacked.
Dan: I can't be sacked. I don't work for you.
Tyrant: No, you don't work for me, you're right.
Dan: So, I can't be sacked.
Tyrant: Well.
Dan: But, I'm sorry.

They're at it again right near the end (48m10s) when they're walking away from the protest arguing about whether you can edit a live broadcast. Then, as they get in their van (50m30s), they get hassled by the filth who tell them 'All is fair in love and war'. Charming.

[Johnny Yesno]

This account of Sunday's demo is worth a read too: https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2021/03/23/the-real-story-of-the-siege-of-bristols-bridewell-police-station

[Echo Valley 2-6809]

Future generations will learn that I was reading Middlemarch when all this was kicking off.

[greenman]

This account of Sunday's demo is worth a read too: https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2021/03/23/the-real-story-of-the-siege-of-bristols-bridewell-police-station

All totally ignored by the BBC naturally in favour of just releasing the polices statement as fact.

[imitationleather]

Future generations will learn that I was reading Middlemarch when all this was kicking off.

Future generations will learn that I was reading the middle March section of my calendar when all this was kicking off.

[Buelligan]

All totally ignored by the BBC naturally in favour of just releasing the polices statement as fact.

As we know, BBC News are worse than shite.  They report this https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56491949  Without a hint of warning that it's Britain next.  Without a hint of embarassment.

[Buelligan]

Saw this and thought.

[kryton2.0]

Any updates on this? I heard it's been going on a few nights now in Bristol?

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Saw this and thought.

That's a very good point.

[Goldentony]

Any updates on this?

police = wankers

[BlodwynPig]

Future generations will learn that I was reading the middle March section of my calendar when all this was kicking off.

Everytime I go out, I think I'm bring checked out,
Faceless people watching on a TV screen
Do you begin to sense it, just beneath the surface
Reflections of a window whilst walking down the street
Computers are abused, school records are fed
Police are checking on what you said
The number of your car's fed into a box
Your journey's being checked, it's a paradox
Duplicate forms, and ID cards are next in line to disregard
Future generations are relying on us
It's a world we've made - Incubus
We're living on a knife edge, looking for the ground

[Midas]

They report this https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56491949  Without a hint of warning that it's Britain next.  Without a hint of embarassment.

This passed me by. Bleak.

I'm standing at the edge of a precipice, peering down at the waves below.
"Hmm, choppy waters tonight." I mumble to myself.
Huge chunks of rock plunge into the sea.
"I'm glad I'm not standing down there." I mutter, pointlessly.

Rising authoritarianism is going to reduce us all to phantoms of the deep.

Everything is happening in slow-motion yet I'm still struggling to see a way out.

[Twit 2]

No way out. Been saying this for a while now. Human race is fucked.

Alright cheers.

[Twit 2]

Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings
we are running out of the glass rooms
with our mouths full of food to look at the sky
and say thank you
we are standing by the water thanking it
standing by the windows looking out
in our directions

back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging
after funerals we are saying thank you
after the news of the dead
whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you

over telephones we are saying thank you
in doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators
remembering wars and the police at the door
and the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you
in the banks we are saying thank you
in the faces of the officials and the rich
and of all who will never change
we go on saying thank you thank you

with the animals dying around us
taking our feelings we are saying thank you
with the forests falling faster than the minutes
of our lives we are saying thank you
with the words going out like cells of a brain
with the cities growing over us
we are saying thank you faster and faster
with nobody listening we are saying thank you
thank you we are saying and waving
dark though it is

[chveik]

No way out. Been saying this for a while now. Human race is fucked.

Alright cheers.

with that attitude certainly

[idunnosomename]

Saw this and thought.

for a shitty bit of cardboard that's some pretty good draftsmanship

[kryton2.0]

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/579012

211,630 signatures so far.

[Twit 2]

with that attitude certainly

See poem above for my actual attitude. And re-read this maybe:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html

[Pinball]

for a shitty bit of cardboard that's some pretty good draftsmanship

I agree. And the grammar is quite good too. Just a bit of capitalisation variability, but I'd give it an A- frankly. When he's older and owns the means of production, maybe he could print it on better material than cardboard though. But the risk with that approach is that he might miss the demo, and photoshopping it in is bad form.

[beanheadmcginty]

Genuinely thought that "the bill" in KillTheBill referred to the police, not a parliamentary bill. Bit disappointed now.

[chveik]

See poem above for my actual attitude. And re-read this maybe:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html

yeah I know that :( not much to do with police violence though

[Johnny Yesno]

Police in Bristol today confirmed the officer who they said suffered a broken arm in Sunday's riots, didn't have a broken arm, & the officer who they said had broken ribs didn't suffer broken ribs.
Police said 40 officers were injured, however.

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-riot-police-make-more-5222210

_{9:24 pm · 24 Mar 2021}

https://twitter.com/TristanCorkPost/status/1374834627731468288

[kryton2.0]

https://twitter.com/TristanCorkPost/status/1374834627731468288

Nothing new, the police lie about 'injuries' sustained all the time. I can't quite remember the event but it was a few years ago it was reported like 26 police officers injured in a clash, then someone dug deeper and it turned at almost all the injuries were trivial (one was a bee sting, someone else hurt his finger).

Edit: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/dec/15/kingsnorth-climate-change-environment-police?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Only four of the 12 reportable injuries involved any contact with protesters at all and all were at the lowest level of seriousness with no further action taken.

The other injuries reported included "stung on finger by possible wasp"; "officer injured sitting in car"; and "officer succumbed to sun and heat". One officer cut his arm on a fence when climbing over it, another cut his finger while mending a car, and one "used leg to open door and next day had pain in lower back".

Shit like that.

[Johnny Yesno]

What is this bullshit from the filth (from that BristolLive link)?

Ch Supt Carolyn Belafonte made an appeal on BBC's Crimewatch Roadshow on Wednesday morning.

She said: "As we said from the outset, this will be a substantial investigation which has the potential to be one of the largest in our history.

"The fact we're investigating 40 assaults on officers and a member of the media as the result of one incident shows the scale of wanton disorder which took place that night.

[Johnny Yesno]

Nothing new, the police lie about 'injuries' sustained all the time. I can't quite remember the event but it was a few years ago it was reported like 26 police officers injured in a clash, then someone dug deeper and it turned at almost all the injuries were trivial (one was a bee sting, someone else hurt his finger).

Edit: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/dec/15/kingsnorth-climate-change-environment-police?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Shit like that.

Oh, well. At least that gave me a good laugh. Fragile dibble.

[Johnny Yesno]

I missed a lot of the Kingsnorth stuff at the time: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/jul/22/kingsnorth-protest-police-tactics.

Seems like nothing much has actually changed, and that was under a Labour government.

The protesters won, too: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/oct/07/eon-cancels-kingsnorth-power-station.

Just goes to show, we mustn't get demoralised.

[Bronzy]

Future generations will learn that I was reading Middlemarch when all this was kicking off.

Future generations will learn that I was wanking when all this was kicking off.

[BlodwynPig]

yeah I know that :( not much to do with police violence though

it is

[gilbertharding]

Happened to hear The Now Show from last Friday, where the centrist melt comedians were saying that almost any kind of protest against the bill would be completely justified. I might have to listen this week, unfortunately, to check they haven't changed their tune now shit has happened.

[Johnny Yesno]

Happened to hear The Now Show from last Friday, where the centrist melt comedians were saying that almost any kind of protest against the bill would be completely justified. I might have to listen this week, unfortunately, to check they haven't changed their tune now shit has happened.

Stay strong.