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Judi Lynn

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Tue Oct 6, 2015, 11:54 PM Oct 2015

Outrage Stirred as Police Deploy Snipers to 'Observe' Anti-Austerity March in UK

Published on Monday, October 05, 2015
byCommon Dreams

Outrage Stirred as Police Deploy Snipers to 'Observe' Anti-Austerity March in UK

As more than 60,000 people marched against Tory's attack on the economy, sharp-shooters took up positions on rooftops

by Jon Queally, staff writer


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Police in Manchester assigned sniper units to rooftops on Sunday as tens of thousands of peaceful protesters marched on the Tory's annual meeting. (Photo: Social media)
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As the national Conservative Party in the U.K. held its annual meeting in Manchester over the weekend, an anti-austerity demonstration against the ruling party's economic policies attracted not only tens of thousands of people to march peacefully... but a few police snipers to keep "watch" over those who oppose the government's gutting of the public sector.

Outrage resulted as images surfaced showing how police had dispatched sniper teams to rooftops in the city as an estimated 60,000 people, including families with young children, followed a route through the city center.

As the Manchester Evening News first reported:


Pictures have circulated on social media showing snipers on roofs in Manchester city centre during the Tory Party conference.

Police marksmen can be seen on the top of the Great Northern complex, and it is understood they are also on situated on other another city centre building.

Many wrote about the pictures on social media. Twitter user Ben Whittingham posted an aerial photograph of a man looking through the sniper on top of a roof.

He captioned it: “Just a police sniper on roof of Tory party conference, which resembles a prison.”

More:
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/05/outrage-stirred-police-deploy-snipers-observe-anti-austerity-march-uk
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Outrage Stirred as Police Deploy Snipers to 'Observe' Anti-Austerity March in UK (Original Post) Judi Lynn Oct 2015 OP
When is the world going to wake up to the fact that the political Right is the threat? Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2015 #1
That's pretty terrifying when your high status and income depend on the things you listed Fumesucker Oct 2015 #2
 

Spitfire of ATJ

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1. When is the world going to wake up to the fact that the political Right is the threat?
Wed Oct 7, 2015, 03:01 AM
Oct 2015

What's the terrifying thing from the current "Left"? Higher taxes on the rich? World peace? Cut back on the military and take care of children and the elderly? Ending corporate welfare?

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