UK Anti-Terror Police Sent After a 12 Year Old Planning To Protest

Terror squad yanks 12-year-old out of class over plan to protest at David Cameron's office.

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Dave Winer :

Tech is where big news is happening this decade. It's time to start doing it seriously.

Heavy Handed

BBC uncritically reports that the police were searching for weapons. Seems that would-be protestors had paint!!!!
 
StopG8 :

People present in the Beak Street building report that the police used tasers, chemical sprays, and dogs, and hit unarmed people with shields and fists as they held their hands in the air or covered their heads. We are currently gathering witness statements and will release soon a detailed account of the attacks and injuries. We know that at least two people received serious head injuries, and many more were beaten. We are still waiting on reports from at least 30 people who were arrested.

“I could hear tasers going non stop for at least a minute,” said one witness, “I never heard anything like it in my life.”

A StopG8 spokesperson commented: “The police claim that they raided Beak Street because they suspected there were weapons on the building. In fact the only weapons were the police tasers, batons, shields, chemicals, fists and dogs.”

"Suspecting weapons" is a pretty easy thing to do.

I'm talking a good fight over here.