London Cops Launch “Total Policing” at Student Protest in Britain
Submitted on November 11, 2011
By Robert Stevens - WSWS
The policing of Wednesday’s students protest in London was unprecedented in its repressive character...In what amounts to the criminalization of political protest, a policy described as “total policing” by the Metropolitan Police was put into operation...4,000 police officers, including 500 extra officers from outside London, [were] on the march — the largest mobilization of police in the capital since the riots in August.
