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Bizzies Big Day Out in Edinburgh

mini mouse | 04.07.2005 16:44 | Repression

Having bought all this new cop stuff, Edinburgh's finest weren't going to miss out on the chance to use it.

Cops arrive to block of Cannon Street
Cops arrive to block of Cannon Street

Crowd now bubbled
Crowd now bubbled

Cops change into riot gear
Cops change into riot gear

and get the dogs out
and get the dogs out

Clowns arrive
Clowns arrive

Police response
Police response

Mounted police...
Mounted police...

and get the dogs out...
and get the dogs out...


Around midday a biggish group of protestors were trapped in Cannon Street, an approach to the financial district of the city.
About a dozen police vans arrived to block each end.
Although things seemed pretty peaceful, after an hour or so police changed into riot gear, which, naturally enough caused a bit of a reaction from the trapped crowd.
Oh, and they got the dogs out, just in case.
A couple of hours later some clowns arrived on a rescue mission. Their main tactic seemed to be tickling the forward row of cops.
Police responded with an approriate force of about three hundred riot clad, shield bearing officers, who chased them down West Approach Road, just in time to meet the mounted police coming the other way.
Oh, and they got the dogs out again, just in case...

mini mouse


Comments

Display the following 5 comments

  1. Police over-reaction — Polo
  2. Better still...as well as! — long distance lover
  3. Capitalist leaders? — Kapital
  4. Kanada — LOKi
  5. cap it all — DWP

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