The FIT team photographer here was spotted at yesterday’s Latin music festival, Carnival del Pueblo, with assorted FIT team coppers and TSG (riot cops, but not dressed up) also in attendance. Young, black men were being routinely stopped and searched after a Section 60 order had been placed over the whole of the Borough of Southwark allowing stop and searches for no reason whatsoever.
We didn’t manage to get his pic, but it seems the FIT team’s remit has been extended to photographing folk at community events.
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Crazy Cops at Climate Camp « the void // August 6, 2008 at 8:49 am |
[...] now have an open ticket to illegally stop and search the young, working class. At last weekends Carnival del Pueblo festival in Southwark the anger was plain to see at the police’s confrontational approach to [...]
Ugly mob decends on Carnival « the void // August 26, 2008 at 10:11 am |
[...] feared that several of these crimes may have a racial motive however a spate of incidents involving the bullying, harrassment and assault of young, working class people from all ethnic [...]