BBC Newsnight report about Mark Kennedy (aka Mark Stone), undercover policeman, 10th January 2011

A report from BBC Newsnight by Richard Watson about undercover policeman Mark Kennedy (aka Mark Stone) who infiltrated various political and environment groups over 7 years.

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[FaceABullet]

This sheds valuable insight into real police operations, infitrating dissenting movements in order to act as agent provocateur. This is just one example that has been outed, but there are many more 'Mark Stones' out there. People always dismiss this kind of stuff as being conspiracy theory, but the reason they use this tactic is because its so effective.

[Jackthesmilingblack]

This was police entrapment and illegal.

[osomy]

Of these, 16 deaths were categorised by the IPCC as being directly "restraint-related".

Families of those who had died expressed disbelief that their loved ones had been excluded from death in custody figures.

[osomy]

BBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme found that official figures understated the number of people who die in custody after being restrained by police.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission said the review would look at its approach to such cases.The names relate to 86 people who died in police custody between 1998-99 and 2008-09 following the use of restraint.

[osomy]

Keith Blakelock became an 'under cover' cop when they put a blanket over him.

[t0mme1981]

I am an Inspector and have just finished running a Custody Unit in a County Force. I ran a policy that no person with a mental illness was allowed in Custody. They were taken to A+E with a police guard until fit for detention, or if so dangerous admiitted to custody with a trained mental nurse present to care for them.

Policing by nature has 'fuzzy' boundaries. I love it all; informant handling, fraud jobs etc. Nothing is a griefy as a death in custody+ we do everything to avoid it.

[osomy]

@t0mme1981 How about discussing deaths in police custody.

[osomy]

He doesn't have too good a life ahead of him,

[photo2wrush]

Mark Kennedy, Britain's most controversial undercover police officer, went from being a regular south London police officer, with a wife and two children, to becoming Mark Stone.

The police, his colleagues, treated him worse than the social conscious campaigners.

Now, with his cover blown. He is separated from his wife and family. The woman he fell deeply in love with as Mark Stone never wants to see him again.

The police dumped him like an unwanted pet. it was all corporation led for money

[NicosNicosNicosNicos]

@NicosNicosNicosNicos (Well, ok I made that up).