Arrested for asking a policeman for his badge number[UK]

Guardian ^ | 21 June 2009 | # Paul Lewis, Marc Vallée, Laurence Topham and Elliot Smith

[BGHater]

The Guardian has obtained this police footage of Emily Apple and Val Swain being arrested by surveillance officers after asking for their badge numbers at the Kingsnorth climate camp last year. The two women speak to Paul Lewis about their arrest, imprisonment and official complaint

[BGHater]

Video

Arrested for Asking a Policeman for his Badge Number-Youtube

[rightwingintelligentsia]

What’s a “Climate Camp”?

[BGHater]

Activist, a career.

http://climatecamp.org.uk/?q=node/468

[bgill]

I’m guessing algore was the guest speaker or the campers run around in the buff or both.

[bgill]

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[freedumb2003]

OK, this was very unreasonable conduct by the cops. She wasn’t even mouthing off, she calmly asked for his badge number. He was in uniform so her question was completely legitimate.

And the lady with the camera was not even close to the cops — how could she have been “interfering?”

I know, some of you who have seen my posts about this kind of thing are falling of your chairs ;)

[alexander_busek]

And the lady with the camera was not even close to the cops — how could she have been "interfering?"

I guess that being "annoying," "irritating," or "distracting" is now construed as constituting "interference" in modern-day Great Britain.

Seriously: Could it be that photographing the police without their consent is illegal in Great Britain?

Regards,

[DJ MacWoW]

Wow. Ask a British cop for his badge number and get brutalized and arrested. Take a picture of it and get the same. We aren’t far off from this in some places here.

[DJ MacWoW]

I wouldn’t have had quite the negative reaction that I did if it hadn’t been for the cop holding her by the throat and then using a pressure point on someone that wasn’t resisting.

[Wurlitzer]

This is exactly why citizens should be very careful with who they elect and give power to.

Once you relinquish power to some government JBT then you are at their mercy.

[monday]

These officers should be in prison for life.

[ASOC]

I like this tshirt

[woollyone]

You club hippies?
That make you feel superior in some way?
You LEO?
...sure hope not

[ASOC]

Ah - dude - its called a joke?

You know - a parody of all the I (heart) something or the other.....

That site sells a lot of cool t-shirts, the one I linked to is just one of many.

We at FR really do need to work on our humor.

[woollyone]

“We at FR really do need to work on our humor.”

..are you serious?

=)

Ya never know...
I’m shocked at some of the pro-popo beatdown comments I see here on a sight that is supposed to be pro-liberty, not pro-thuggery. I just missed your implied /s tag.

best wishes.

[Don W]

The Brits armed their cops years ago.

That still doesn’t excuse their mistreatment of this person. A couple of JBT’s exercizing their power over we the proles.

[ASOC]

LOl - no sweat - figure folks that get it, get it. Those that don’t would not understand a /s tag.

BTW - its Vopo (Volkspolizei)

I don’t have a mean bone in my body - unless you mess with my family....then, maybe bad news for messer.

My tag line used to be
I may not look like much, but I raised a Marine.

[woollyone]

VoPo

~word~