Cops kettling kids in Dalston, public sector strike November 30

For context, a bunch of kids who had been doing a solidarity walk round the pickets tried to do a short road block outside CLR James library in Dalston.

When I got there a few people had stayed outside the kettle as they were with young children, who stayed out of solidarity until a group of four snarling attack dogs was was brought in and picketed around whoever wasn't already kettled. The kids freaked out (understandably) and had to be taken home while everyone else stayed and kept an eye on police as they marched the entire group to waiting coaches.

There were a fair few pickets went by on their way to the nearby town hall demo as it was going on, a lot of people were pretty shocked by how heavy-handed the police were being.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Dalston
• public sector strike
• November 30th

[jonnic89]

Maybe there were a lot of police out in force due to the fact some protestors punched a PCSO in the face and broke his jaw at the start of it all.

[RobRay81]

@jonnic89 @jonnic89 Lol says jonnic89 of the Met Police force, favourite videos "dont fuck with robocop" and a (copyrighted, naughty boy) bit by Gene Hunt. Forgive me for not entirely trusting a member of the force which came up with "Mark Duggan was shooting at us" to give the full skinny eh? I assume you're referring to the incident at the bus station which took place hours before, had nothing to do with the strike and clearly didn't break any jaws? Poor.

[C0ckneyReject]

By the way RobRay81 I've sent you a private message.

[C0ckneyReject]

I love being called a kid still at 44...cheers! ;-)

[jgharding2]

@theblob34 The only difference being that the miners actually fought back.

[theblob34]

police doing it again like in the minors strike