Fortnum and Mason Protestor Arrests Are a Sign That Protest Policing Needs to Change
|
Posted 11.21.2011
|
UK Politics
Read More:
UK Politics,
Police,
March Protests,
UK Economy,
Fortnum and Mason,
Protestors,
Policing Protests,
Fortnum and Mason Protests,
UK Policing,
UK Politics News
The government and the police have, over the last 20 years or so, been pursuing a policy of increasingly criminalising protest. They no longer see it as their role to facilitate protest, they see their role as to police protest, to regulate and control it.
