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Who's Lying? The police or the police.

25-01-2008 12:35

The scum can't have it both ways. Who's lying? Take your pick.

Either the police federation lied and the BNP were invited to their march. Or the Bronze Commander lied to Fit Watch.

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Fit Watch prop for police march

22-01-2008 14:08

meet 9:30 - Tyburn Pub - Edgware Road (nearest tube Marble Arch).

The cops have been violently crushing our struggles for years. They are violent thugs who don’t deserve any money, let alone more money.

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Anti police action 23rd January

16-01-2008 12:24

‘BOO A BOBBY’ - JANUARY 23RD - BE THERE!
CLASS WAR ARE ASKING PEOPLE TO ‘BOO A BOBBY’ - GATHERING POINT MARSHAM STREET AT 12 NOON OPPOSITE THE HOME OFFICE.

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Fit up the Cops: It's Pay Back Time

16-01-2008 00:01

23rd January 2008
Meet Weatherspoons on Baker Street (nearest tube Marble Arch)
9:30am

Bring anything you think could be useful...

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Climate Change Autonomous Bloc: Stop the police filming our protest

07-12-2007 12:50

Maintain the pressure following recent court victories and join FIT Watch
to kick the FIT off our bloc.

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First FITwatch trial ends in NOT GUILTY verdicts.

29-11-2007 19:52

The second day of the trial of 2 protestors arrested outside ULU in Malet Street, ended with both defendants being found not guilty by a District Judge. The arrests of a woman and a 14 year old youth followed their attempts to obstruct the civilian cameraman, who was filming people as they arrived for a planning meeting for protests against the DSEi Armsfair which took place at the ExCeL centre in Docklands in September 2007.

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FIT Watch protesters to challenge the legality of police surveillance.

26-11-2007 14:25

This week, two separate court cases will challenge the legality of police surveillance. Both cases involve two women who are accused of obstructing the police in1 the execution of their duty.

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Class War - Bash The Rich - FIT Watch

05-11-2007 15:18

03/11/07: Video of FIT Watch at work on the Class War Protest in Notting Hill, London.

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Have you ever been stop and searched by the FIT?

05-11-2007 12:29

Have you been stopped and searched by the FIT? Do you still have a record of your search?

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Fighting Fit

05-10-2007 21:34

A personal account of taking on the FIT....

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FITwatch - Faslane Oct 1st

03-10-2007 23:12

FIT and police photography units were out at Faslane on October the 1st during the Big Blockade.

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Policing the No Border Camp

27-09-2007 13:25

There was nothing all that unusual about the policing of the Gatwick No Border Camp last week: intimidation and harassment, spin and lies, unlawful arrests.. all too familiar to those who've been around enough to realise that the police are not only about stopping crime and fighting terrorism. But it is always worth knowing the details of exactly what happened, how and why.

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FIT Watch Bingo For DSEi

10-09-2007 09:04

Have fun cop spotting at DSEi.

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"Bottle them in" - flim of start of the kettle at BAA

21-08-2007 19:17

Not great quality, but shows the police 'kettling' about 200 demonstrators to get them out of the car park to prevent them joining with other people who are already blockading the road entrance to the BAA HQ.

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The kettle behind the BAA blockade

19-08-2007 17:27

A wholly peaceful group arrived behind BAA's headquarters around 3.30 this afternoon. Despite the fact that the contingent was largely composed of the CIRCA clowns, police responded in their usual way by sending in the riot squad.

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FIT Watch Spotter Card

18-08-2007 12:21

Here is the spotter card used by FIT Watch at climate camp. We had several requests for the coloured original, so here it is.

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FitWatch faceup to FIT

17-08-2007 10:48

The Forward Intelligence Team (FIT) were photographing and video individuals and families, including small children, as they arrived at the Climate Camp on Thursday. This was in addition to permanent CCTV and helicopter surveillance of the Camp.

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FIT hunting NoBorders activists at rampART

22-07-2007 22:50

A Forward Intelligence Team was, again, waiting outside the rampATR social centre in London today as NoBorders activists arrived for a meeting about the Gatwick No Border Camp in September. As usual, they were photographing and writing down the descriptions of everyone coming in for over an hour. Yet, they were so shy of being photographed themselves!

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FIT watch at Disarm DSEi meeting

01-07-2007 15:50

Some photos from outside ULU before the Disarm DSEi public meeting. As expected the FIT team were out in force taking photos and intimidating people. This time though a group of about ten were there to stop them taking photos.

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Solihull Protest Against Deportations to DRC

12-04-2007 23:45

Over 200 people protested today at the immigration reporting centre in Solihull, near Birmingham, against deportations to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The protest, organised by the Congo Support Project, was part of a UK-wide coordinated day of action to mark a "directions hearing" for the Country Guidance Tribunal regarding DRC asylum seekers.

There was a large and heavy-handed police presence and the protest was penned, twice, into the car park after protesters refused to stay in the tiny designated area on the grounds of Sandford House. Protesters, however, broke off after a while and blockaded the road for about 2 hours. Two people were arrested, one also assaulted by an aggressive cop. They were released later on but only because their fellow protesters, in an empowering show of solidarity, refused to leave the site before they were released.