On the same evening that the eyes of the world were on London for the opening ceremony of the Olympics, the police in that city, kettled, and arrested the critical mass, a mass participation bike ride, that has been taking place once a month in that city, for 18 years.
Click here to read an eyewitness account of what happened, including video clips showing a woman being arrested for trying to give water to a muslim man who had already been arrested, and was feeling faint as he had been fasting because it was Ramadan. When she says to the arresting officer that "cycling isn't illegal", he replies "Yes it is".
There's people being pepper sprayed as they get dragged off their bikes, and people videoing what's going on being intimidated by blatantly aggressive thugs in uniforms.
Does Boris Johnson know that the London Police are undermining his promotion of London as a cycle friendly city?
There's a petition online demanding that the fingerprints and dna samples of the people arrested and not charged (about a hundred arrested and detained, only three charged) be removed from registers.
Welcome to Tory Britain. Did we learn nothing from the Thatcher years?
1 comment:
Strange that it's not been reported in the UK press, but the foreign new seems to have picked up on it.
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