Police caught red-handed making ‘weapons’ found at miners’ demo | The SKWAWKBOX
Interesting, with relevance to the continuing struggle for an inquiry into events at Orgreave in 1984:
A ‘fleur de lys’ railing.
One piece of evidence has come to light that bears immediate exposure. It does not concern events at Orgreave, but rather another miners’ demonstration at Richborough power plant in Kent. But what it reveals bears directly on the credibility of ‘evidence’ supposedly showing miners at Orgreave had come armed for battle, which authorities have claimed justified a police response best described as brutal.
The eyewitness, now a business owner in Kent, was a teenager at the time and used to fish in a pool near Richborough power station. Here are his own words:
Myself and a friend cycled from Ramsgate to Richborough to go fishing. Being young and impetuous and both us and the location being crap for fishing we were sidetracked by a group of police with petrol grinders taking out nearby railings.
Upon approaching a “piss off you kids” comment from a policeman made us leave -not before seeing aforementioned railings being loaded into a police van. One of us (I forget which now) jokingly commented to the other “those would make great spears”.
Later that week i was sitting drawing while my father watched the news and my interest drew me to it when they mentioned Richborough power station. (As this was right next to our frequent fishing spot).
The report was about a clash between NUM pickets and police and they said “rocks were thrown at police and railings were torn out and used as spears” – they then rolled out a police presentation of these spears and they were…the same distinct fleur-de -leys pointed ones i had seen beeing taken away from the area days before.
So yes. It is easy for evidence to be planted and some poor sod was up on an attempted murder charge for supposedly using these ‘weapons’. It did teach me at a young age 13/14 not to trust both the police or the media.
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OMG I know the police are capable of bending the law and even breaking it, but if this is to be believed, more police than even I guessed, are as bent as a nine bob note:
The police are bent and this does not come as a shock, they are the law and as the law can do as they like
Anyone who is unfortunate enough to have had adverse contact with the police will know these things went on. Police culture by it’s very nature is provocative and confrontational. Not to say they all have these tenancies, but with orders from an ‘enthusiastic’ superior the ‘uniform syndrome’ comes into play and they follow like lemmings. We have seen so much typical evidence of this, as in Hillsborough. Police will claim they are apolitical, well they never have been and never will be, because the culture is to follow the course of least resistance, not one off criminology science.
Why are you calling yourself ‘Sanjit’, Brian?