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Occupy London being evicted now

Person | 22.02.2012 10:46

The police have moved quickly after the ruling in the High Court this morning and are already at the camp breaking tents and hurting people.

Following the lack of our appeal today the police have reacted immediately and begun their expected violent attack on the camp. There are about 200 of them with some special Ford Transist vehicles that have a grab on an arm that is being used to pick up tents. Tripods that had been put up this morning were pulled down with one falling on a young woman causing bruising to her arm.

Legal observers are preparing reports and taking photos of the violence

Person

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Hope all are ok

22.02.2012 11:02

Sorry to hear the pigs have started straight away and not even let people get their shit together and stuff. Will there be a new camp somewhere ?

Concerned of Tipton

Arm injuries

22.02.2012 11:04

Get lots of photos, videos and statements concerning the injuries. Should be the chance of some nice juicy compensation.

Street lawyer

Most of camp gone, some of us still fighting

22.02.2012 12:02

About half of the camp quickly gave up and followed what the police told them to do with the rest of them deciding to fight. There are about six people who have locked onto each other and a lamp post but the police cutting teams are separating them.

The police video teams under the guise of recording the eviction are closely filming all the people with extreme close-ups and even recording inside tents (illegal ? - who knows).

A group of City types are standing around nearby and jeering which the police are simply ignoring even though it is clearly upsetting some of the camp. When one woman confronted them she was warned by the police !!!!

The special police 'cherry picker' vans are dumping all the tents into one open pick up truck and not letting people sort out their belongings or clothes. The police are claiming it will be returned later this week.

As I write this the last of the 'lock-on' has been cut and the people moved on.

Resister

Four injuries

22.02.2012 12:48

There are now four people with injuries:

One bruised arm
One broken finger
One nosebleed (result of a baton hit to the face)
One lacerations to the knees

Another

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Oh really...

22.02.2012 13:31

Nothing on the usual Internet sites in the past 20 minutes seems to suggest the above is true. Hope it isn't

Yogi Bored

Some people.....

22.02.2012 14:01

Yogi Bored - get off the internet and get down here to help.