Total policing: Rave on
Freedom Press | 29.01.2012 10:37 | World
A research expert in police ethics warned that the biggest danger is that the technology would be used for political control. “If authorities in Egypt or Syria had this, would they use it for dispersal or to shove crowds into potentially lethal harm’s way?” he asked from Leeds.
Given the new police commissioners penchant for expensive novelty devices – it was Bernard ‘Hulk’ Hogan Howe the Oxbridge graduate now in charge of the police who introduced the enormous ‘Berlin wall’ style crowd barriers onto the streets during the last student demonstration and his dedication to kettling – it won’t be long before we see the British police using the new riot shields for political purposes.
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Histories stupidest inventions!
29.01.2012 12:30
Fuck that, what would happen if the Met got hold of them?
"Dis iz ze kommondant speeking...u vill now be voteeng for ze mayor as eendicated on ze large banner ve haf profided. Sank you for corporation, dismeesed.."
By the way, fitting anything to a riot shield is a really shit idea...not in the least bit surprised a yank thought of it first!!!!
Dr Magnus Pike.
Riot porn.
29.01.2012 12:33
And the riot cop looks suspiciously like Gordon Browne in a helmet!!
anonymous.
United Soundsystems
29.01.2012 14:44
Two can play at that game!
Sound-clash special. There's only one winnah, the feds simply don't have the tunes man.
Arthur
More waste of money!
29.01.2012 19:11
Concerned taxpayer