A twitter thread
Police use a battering ram to break into #ExtinctionRebellion warehouse in Kennington, south London pic.twitter.com/szb98zlZgP
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 5, 2019
An activist with #ExtinctionRebellion said the building had been a “tech hub” storing much of the audiovisual equipment for the protests, including sound systems and lighting, as well as lots of small gazebos. pic.twitter.com/9Jx9DgOs8X
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 5, 2019
#ExtinctionRebellion said eight activists had been arrested on conspiracy to cause a public nuisance as they tried to remove equipment from the building pic.twitter.com/o0MrgrpwSr
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 5, 2019
Equipment confiscated from #ExtinctionRebellion included these pink bean bags, which remain under heavy guard from the Met’s territorial support group. pic.twitter.com/ul7VImR6l4
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 5, 2019
FULL STORY: Police begin preemptive arrests of #ExtinctionRebellion activists ahead of London protests https://t.co/KTOkQOQRPY
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 5, 2019
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 5, 2019
Police admitted they had no warrant to enter the #ExtinctionRebellion building, but claimed the right after arresting people who had been seen to leave it.
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 5, 2019
An activist from #ExtinctionRebellion said the building had been legitimately rented, but that the landlord had decided to evict them this morning, which is why activists were trying to move equipment today.
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 5, 2019
Met police statement on #ExtinctionRebellion raid today:
Police are in Cleaver Street, SE11.
At this stage, ten people [seven women and three men] have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause public nuisance.
They have been taken to a south London police station.
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 5, 2019
Officers remain at the scene.
Enquiries continue.
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 5, 2019
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 5, 2019
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 5, 2019
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 5, 2019
#ExtinctionRebellion said in a statement: “This escalation of pre-emptive tactics by the government and police is a sign that we are being heard and acknowledged as a significant movement.
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 5, 2019
An #ExtinctionRebellion spokesperson said confiscated equipment included portable toilets, kitchen equipment, gazebos and big tents, cooking urns and big thermos flasks, 250-watt solar panels and 12v car batteries, food, waterproofs, umbrellas and hot water bottles.
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 5, 2019
Shadow minister for policing @LouHaigh:https://t.co/XerSwhMzKa
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 5, 2019
Are twitter threads always that redundant?
No they’re not. It’s what happens when different twitter links are copy/pasted into some online formats, basically because twitter sucks in terms of application execution. Most journalists haven’t figured out yet how to use twitter in their online articles. The best way is to quote the twitter comment and provide a link to it. Repeating and stacking things the way they do is extremely annoying.
“This is not what democracy looks like.”
To a socialist, it’s only democracy when they win.
MarW,
How would you know?
Talking to too many socialists.
“Damien Gayle@damiengayle
Police admitted they had no warrant to enter the…”
Damien, Damien, the Police would never admit to that. Just think of the lawsuits!!!
Treat them as the terrorists that they are.
Yes, Mr. Anderson!!!! heh, it’s gif you can easily find on the net.
I keep wondering what they had planned for the giant beanbags. A giant bean bag gun? A catapult? What ?
London police using a battering ram? Isn’t that a bit extreme for them — I hope they tried politely knocking first… 🙂
An excessively redundant post.
Useful information herein could have been presented in fewer than 50 words. Why do we need to see photos repeated?
Please stop with the repetitive wording and photos.
Just heard on CBC that XR is going to block the Burrard Street bridge in Vancouver BC starting tomorrow (Monday) morning and continuing all day. Words fail me.
Just heard on CBC that XR is going to block the Burrard Street bridge in Vancouver BC starting tomorrow (Monday) morning and continuing all day. Words fail me.
If only the police were Somehow made aware of the anarchists intentions to block the burrard street bridge they could stop it. Oh, wait!
Tonyb
This is good to hear. I hope more of these raids happen. XR should be considered to be a terrorist group.
When I opened this article all the Twitter captures appeared for about one second, and then everything disappeared except the WUWT introductory comment:
Then just below that is an advertisement, and that’s all I see. WUWT?
Harumph. I was using Comodo Dragon (a version of Chrome that allegedly closes some of the security weaknesses deliberately constructed to favor Google advertising) as my web browser. When I switched to MS Internet Explorer (I hate that program) the
Twitshung around for me to see and read them.OT
Firefox with security hardening…
never use Google as your search engine…
I cant use chrome, it takes over the phone, like a virus and slows it down. Probably exports data to all sorts of advertizers and spy agencies.
Just like Apple?
Yeah, that was the “…weaknesses…” to which I alluded.
Not just any twitter thread. Damien Gayle is the Guardian reporter for the Guardian article.
Police are going too far, way too far.
Preemtively arresting people for future crimes on basis of leaving and entering a building?
I dont like this a bit.
The chances these eco terrorists would harm someone are very small. Let them do their crimes, if any, then throw the book at them. This Orwellian nonsens leads to no good outcome.
Blocking access to a hospital is not acceptable behavior in a civil society.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/06/extinction-rebellion-protesters-admit-could-disrupt-hospital/amp/
People can die from this. Throw the sick bastards in jail and auction off their assets.
Lets hope they are not in your way when you have a heart attack.
Spreads to Aus;
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/thirty-people-arrested-at-environmental-protest-in-sydney-cbd-20191007-p52yew.html
Glad the NSW Police acted correctly.
Scotland Yard managed to foil the Gunpowder Plot; surely they can take down these amateurs.
MarkW October 6, 2019 at 6:28 am
[] each of the twitter posts show up twice because it’s
– one for the twitter
– two for the show / resp. “normal browser content”
– three to start twitter, go twit go!
but don’t you step on their blue sued shoes
you can do anything
but don’t you step on their twitter shoes!