One month after major disturbances were provoked by the August 4 police killing of Mark Duggan in north London, the Metropolitan Police in the capital are intensifying raids on working class communities.
Entire neighbourhoods have been sealed off, with riot police smashing down doors and dragging people away. So far this has resulted in over 2,000 arrests in London alone, averaging approximately 100 a day since the riots began. The media, tipped off in advance, has filmed the build-up, the actual raids and the spectacle of youth being thrown into police vans.
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This naked class vengeance involves all the institutions of the state.
Eoin McLennan-Murray, president of the Prison Governors Association (PGA), said of magistrates, “It's like when you've got sharks and there's blood in the water and it's a feeding frenzy. There's a sentencing frenzy and we seem to have lost all sight of proportionality. It's appealing to the populist mentality, and that's not the best basis on which to sentence people.
“The norms of sentencing are being ignored... This kind of speedy across-the-board justice probably means a number of people are dealt with unfairly.” Full story...
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Entire neighbourhoods have been sealed off, with riot police smashing down doors and dragging people away. So far this has resulted in over 2,000 arrests in London alone, averaging approximately 100 a day since the riots began. The media, tipped off in advance, has filmed the build-up, the actual raids and the spectacle of youth being thrown into police vans.
(...)
This naked class vengeance involves all the institutions of the state.
Eoin McLennan-Murray, president of the Prison Governors Association (PGA), said of magistrates, “It's like when you've got sharks and there's blood in the water and it's a feeding frenzy. There's a sentencing frenzy and we seem to have lost all sight of proportionality. It's appealing to the populist mentality, and that's not the best basis on which to sentence people.
“The norms of sentencing are being ignored... This kind of speedy across-the-board justice probably means a number of people are dealt with unfairly.” Full story...
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