"Total Policing" in Britain and the Criminalization of Dissent (Two Articles)
Submitted on November 12, 2011
The demo shuffled, zombie-like through the streets of London, with progress severely restricted by a heavy police presence. Effectively the cops had decided to place the whole demonstration in a mobile kettle, with lines of police marching alongside; every side street was barricaded with police horses dictating the pace at the front and a further 15 riot vans, 6 police cars and a dog van bringing up the rear. Overall more than 4,000 cops...were deployed. No one was allowed to join the demo and you certainly couldn’t leave...
