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Stop The Police Killings (Hackney Tonite)

Fight Back | 14.01.2003 13:52

The Police P.R machine will be in full swing at 7:30 tonight in Hackney Town Hall, come along and voice your dissent.

So, the Hackney siege, one of Britains longest armed sieges has come to an end with another dead black person.

Tonight the metropolitan police P.R machine will be in full swing as the pigs and the council try and present their side of the story. Eli Hall is dead, cause of death unknown and awaiting post mortem results. The "independent" Police Complaints Authority are investigating the circumstances surrounding the siege ending, an operation which totally disrupted normal life for hackneyites and left 43 people trapped in their homes since Boxing Day. The operation cost well in excess of £500,000.

Tonight the pigs will try and tell us we should be thankful that this "dangerous gunman" is off the streets for good. They will say he refused to come out alive and and dug his own grave as it were. Well they cut off the guys water, food and heating (when the weather was freezing) for most of the siege so no wonder he was in no mood for negotiations!!

The pigs will try and propagate the myth that gun culture is taking over and we should all live in fear of each other. The truth is the hype about guns is being used to criminalize black people and youth culture (which is merely reflecting the inherent violence of this society). They want us to live in fear of each other and want us to believe that more cops is the way to safer streets.

The reality of the situation is 1,000 people have been killed in police custody since 1969 (600 in the last 12 years) and that no pig has ever been convicted of anything.

Shiji Lapite was murdered by police in Hackney in 1994
Sarah Thomas was murdered by police in Hackney in 1999
Harry Stanley was murdered by police in Hackney in 1999

Joy Gardener was murdered by police in Tottenham in 1993
Roger Sylvester was murdered by police in Tottenham 1999

And the list goes on and on..........

The point is the police can kill with impunity and they are the biggest killers in this society.

People should come to voice their opposition to this situation and act now to stop the police from killing our brothers and sisters.

Hackney Town Hall Tonite Tuesday 7:30PM
(the pigs try and speak to residents and business people to explain their actions)

Fight Back

Comments

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Eli Hall

14.01.2003 17:21

if an armed man refuses to give himself up, I don't see there's much else the police can do. Walk away?

sceptic


Root Causes

14.01.2003 18:09

A siege in North London lasted six hours, resulting in riot police storming the house and shooting dead the 19 year-old schizophrenic 'suspect' - This is the scenario police claim they were attempting to avoid by prolonging the Hackney 'seige'- but it lasted a week, to make tabloid headline news and justify armimg regular MET police with submachine guns, while disarming all citizens, ready for the impending military takeover. There is no gun problem in London, only a trigger-happy-racist-scum-police-on-a-power-trip problem.

Yardie


Not surprising

14.01.2003 22:55

I was waiting for a comment regarding the Hackney seige claiming that the gunman was the victim - I'm surprised it took so long to appear! Perhaps those holding the demonstration should first make some comment on what it was like to be his hostage...

Paul Edwards


Allegations

15.01.2003 11:50

Dear Sir,

Following reports of several accusations levelled at me in a libelous fashion I must warn you to cease immediately or face possible legal recourse. This constitutes your only warning.

Your views on the Police Service of Northern Ireland are clearly innacurate, for your information I would like to explain the new future for policing in the province:

As a result of the agreement reached in Belfast on the 10th April 1998, the Independent Commission on Policing in Northern Ireland was established. The Commission, chaired by the Right Honourable Chris Patten, reported in September 1999. The government subsequently published an implementation plan in June 2000 outlining how the report's recommendations would be implemented and in November 2000 the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 was enacted. The government's implementation plan was further updated in August 2001.

Five key principles will be embodied in our approach to policing with the community. They are :

Service Delivery--delivering what the community wants in the way it wants

Partnerships--working in co-operation with all other agencies,organisations and local people

Problem Solving- getting to grips with the underlying causes of crime and disorder

Empowerment- enabling officers to tackle locally raised policing issues in an innovative way

Accountability-explaining police actions and capabilities directly to local communities.

As a Police Service we look forward to the future and to working with all the people of Northern Ireland to provide the best policing in the world of which we can all be proud.

Further information can be found at:  http://www.psni.police.uk/

I would also like to confirm that I am unaware of any officers under my command who have been posting on this anarachist web site. If any officers do post on here (and make it clear that they are PSNI officers), they are obliged to state that they are representing their own opinions and not the views and policies of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

If you would like to discuss any issues with me you are of course more than welcome to book an appointment with my secretary on 028 9065 0222.

I trust this has cleared-up the issue,

Chief Supt. Jonathan McIvor

Chief Supt. Jonathan McIvor


Fuck off Mc Ivor

16.01.2003 01:59

"...I trust this has cleared-up the issue..."

No, funnily enough. Bullshit rhetoric and meaningless speechifying, loaded with cliches and hollow business jargon, like this:

"Service Delivery--delivering what the community wants in the way it wants

Partnerships--working in co-operation with all other agencies,organisations and local people

Problem Solving- getting to grips with the underlying causes of crime and disorder

Empowerment- enabling officers to tackle locally raised policing issues in an innovative way

Accountability-explaining police actions and capabilities directly to local communities..."

... never clears anything up. But then that's not what its for is it? It's intended for quite the opposite purpose; to obscure and obfuscate under the guise of progress.

PRATE ALL YOU WANT, SHITHEAD. MOST PEOPLE READING THIS KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE POLICE ARE AND WHAT THEY DO, HERE AND OVER THE WATER. AND MAKE ALL THE THREATS YOU LIKE, YOU DON'T SCARE ME.

jim


ha ha

16.01.2003 14:09

ha ha

rudeboy


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