Peaceful protestor with cardboard coffin is arrested despite the Mayor, GLA and Met Police’s T.S.G being under judicial review for breaches in October – November & December. Democracy is Dead in Parliament Square.
Donnachadh McCarthy’s arrest happened as he held a coffin symbolising the death of UK democracy. The coffin carried the inscription “UK Democracy R.I.P. Killed by corporate billionaires.
- Protestor holding a coffin branded “UK Democracy R.I.P.” arrested on Parliament Square
- Despite Judicial Review police disrupt peaceful pro-democracy protests under the cover of darkness
- Freedom of the press threatened as NUJ members threatened with arrest and five arrestees include independent livestreamer
Under the cover of darkness the Metropolitan police’s Territorial Support Group (TSG) officers, on instruction from GLA Wardens, disrupted Occupy Democracy’s monthly protest in front of the Houses of Parliament. This is despite London Mayor Boris Johnson and the GLA being under Judicial Review for their erection of fences in October, November and December.
Around 200 Occupy Democracy supporters were threatened with arrest and five arrests were subsequently made in which large numbers of police targeted and, sometimes violently, picked off peaceful protesters.
These arrests interrupted what was otherwise a packed programme of speakers, workshops, discussions…
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discordion {Artist Ian Pritchard} 