We Are Change UK - SOCPA Arrest

http://www.wearechange.org.uk/

Simon from We Are Change UK gets arrested for demonstrating within the SOCPA Zone in London.

The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA) was introduced into the House of Commons on 24 November 2004 and was passed by Parliament and given Royal Assent in April 2005.

The Act is controversial primarily for an additional, entirely unrelated provision, which restricts the right to demonstrate within an exclusion zone of up to one kilometre from any point in Parliament Square. Demonstrators have to apply to the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police six days in advance, or if this is not reasonably practicable then no less than 24 hours in advance. No equivalent provision is made for any other Parliament in the United Kingdom.

In October 2007, the Home Office published a public consultation document, Managing Protest Around Parliament [5], which 'takes another look at sections 132-138 (of SOCPA) and explores whether there is another way to address the situation that would both uphold the right to protest while also giving police the powers they need to keep the peace'. Campaigners are worried that this document contains new threats to freedom of assembly and the right to protest in that is suggests that there could be 'harmonisation of powers to manage marches and assemblies' throughout the UK.

http://www.repeal-socpa.info/

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[TheMyVew]

The cop asked if you understand? and you said yes... thats a big no no!!

You basicly ''stand-under'' is statement and his rule of law.

I agree with you though how of the chian is it that you have to ask the government to protest, nuts!!!

[mrblablablabla]

Yes! Let's edit in some music so we aren't able to hear what the people in the video are saying! Great idea!

[harlequin991]

good but music annoying

[Kewstu]

He was summoning to court, did you refuse to give name n address, wow also officer safety on that cuffing was shocking

[trex24680]

copes are fucking control freaks and scum

[humouriseverything]

hmmm police playing nice for the cameras?

[rorybowskill]

Should have worn a shirt saying ... "if this is a prpotest then you are a Paedo" and demanded his accusers face him in court and acknowledge tyhat they have admitted what they are.

[Zero7evenX]

Pleasant coppers and a pleasant detainee, oh what a perfect world.

lol

[Johnnymatee]

if they ask if you're protesting, the answer is NO, ''i am expressing my ideas''

[greenjack1959l]

when TSHTF These Nazis won,t be able to ditch their uniforms quick enough, because they know what they are guilty of and they know they,ll be hunted down

[WilteredFire]

Theres nothing in the common law that requires you to have some silly permit in order to stand outside there. Thats statute law which we are NOT bound by, we stand under common law. Kindly ask the CONSTABLE that approach you if they are making a request or an order, if its an order ask them what order in the law requires you to have a permit to stand there, if its a statute you can refuse because you are not under statute law, that requires your consent. Dont stand under ANY statement they make.

[G58]

I know this is an old vid, but why did you feel the need to obscure the sound with that awful noise? A great deal of the dialogue is lost.