i don’t know how many british followers i have but fyi the police are still kettling about 200 protesters from the blm march in london atm (it’s 1am now, about 6 hours i think with no food, water, access to toilets etc)
the kettle is now so tight there’s absolutely no way to social distance, police have batons and at the moment seem to have turned off most of their body cams (?), are asking for id + name, dob, address and a photo as conditions of being released from the kettle, which to my understanding is not legal
crowd is almost entirely comprised of minors but there are some adults and some legal observers
can’t see any reports of this on the news that aren’t blatantly biased/false/full of racist dogwhistles so
Update: today Netpol have confirmed that the ‘Kettling at Black Lives Matter protest in London was disproportionate and unlawful’
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If you have asthma, do not go protesting. Tear gas can be lethal to people with asthma because not only is the powder it's made of toxic and causes burns, but for us it triggers painful and severe asthma attacks that can lead to death. I did not know this going into the protest and later read about protestors with asthma who died after getting hit with tear gas. I'm lucky to be alive. Please share this and take care of yourselves.
this is such an egregious example of how th media uses neutral passive language to describe the police’s murder attempts actions while using the most active, violent language possible to describe anything the protesters do
justin howell was “badly hurt by a beanbag round”. where’d it come from? it just dropped from the sky? the beanbag round just got up and walked over to justin howell and “badly hurt” him all on its own?
meanwhile, the protesters HURLED !!!! a water bottle!!! at the police !!! the VIOLENCE! the FORCE !!!
by saying he was “badly hurt” and declining to say by whom, and then immediately progressing to a description of a forceful action by another person, they have effectively created a sentence that implies the person next to him is to blame for justin howell being “badly hurt”
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