Kill The Bill
Kill The Bill
In a night of police crackdowns last Friday (26
th of March), ten protesters were arrested in Bristol and a peaceful sit-in outside the Bridewell police station was dispersed violently – protesters were beaten with riot shields and truncheons. In one case, a young woman was attacked by a police dog. Kevin Blowe, of Netpol (Network for Police Monitoring) said it was as though the police had been “let off the leash”, and Nadia Whittome MP, among others, has called for an independent inquiry into the police handling of the protests in Bristol.
One can’t help but admire the indefatigable spirit of these young protesters who, despite repeated escalations by and with the police, have turned out and put themselves on the line to protest the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill – for our purposes, the ‘policing bill’ – not just in Bristol but across the UK.