We must protect ourselves and others from increasingly militarised policing

"We must protect ourselves and others from increasingly militarised policing - where chemical weapons, firearms, tasers, etc are in common use against unarmed demonstrators and individuals. At the very least, every demonstrator should carry a baton and everyone should question the authority of the cops. The police are the attack dogs of the state, the army of the rich..."

September 29th, 1829, the Metropolitan Police make their first appearance on the streets of London. They are met with jeering, abuse and resistance wherever they are seen. People saw them to be a threat to civil liberties, a violent means of protecting the rich and paid mercenaries against working class communities and unruly workforces.

They were not seen as 'public servants'. Other indications of the Constabulary's unpopularity of the time, were such nicknames as Raw Lobsters, Blue Devils, Beetle Crushers (because of their large boots), Cuntstables, Filth, Pigs and 'Peel's Bloody Gang'. Officers were physically assaulted, pelted with horse-shit, impaled, kidnapped, tied up and left with abusive notes pinned to them.

One of the priorities and remits of the Metropolitan Police from the beginning, was "maintaining public order", which they were active in doing, against any major demonstration but particularly the Chartist demonstrations of 1839–48. This was the advent of 'political policing' in service of the state against the people, and they have continued in that vein ever since. At every demonstration and protest to protect our environment, our homes, our communities, our jobs, etc, they are there. A pack of inadequate, yet increasingly militarised bully-boys that will do exactly as their politician masters tell them.

Faith in the Met plummets to less than half of Londoners - as just 4% of young women strongly trust the force: https://www.lbc.co.uk/.../metropolitan-police-trust.../...

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