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WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 01:28 PM Jun 2013

Let Us Not Protest Capitalism! "..squad storms Soho squat of anti-capitalists planning to target G8"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2339503/Hundreds-riot-police-Londons-streets-officers-raid-squat-HQ-G8-protesters.html
"Dramatic footage today showed how a protester gripped onto a chimney stack and carefully stepped along a roof with a 60ft sheer drop behind him, before being bundled down onto his front by half a dozen riot police.

The man, who appeared to be bleeding heavily after he was involved in a struggle with officers, was taken away on a stretcher. He has since been reported to be in a stable condition.

It came as 50 police stormed a former police station which had been taken over by anti-capitalist G8 protesters. Using angle-grinders to tear down barriers surrounding the property in Soho, central London, the officers came under fire from missiles hurled by masked squatters who shouted ‘freedom’.

Specialist officers also abseiled in from the roof to flush out activists. The Scotland Yard unit dragged around 40 out in handcuffs and herded them down a side street, with the violence marking the beginning of a week of demonstrations ahead of next week’s summit being held near Belfast from Monday.

In roads surrounding their headquarters, scuffles broke out between some of the 1,200 police and about 200 protesters, leading to at least 32 arrests. The agitators were taking part in the Stop G8 'Carnival Against Capitalism' - encouraged to 'show their anger' ahead of the G8 conference this month."

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