Jonny Ngomuo
@jonny_ngomuo
27. Junior doctor.
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20-06-2012 20:21:13
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Government succeeds in overturning attempt to stop them imposing ban on “noisy” protests, 288 to 238. But noise is how citizens make their voices heard - literally. That’s the point of protest. Giving police such exhaustive & unspecified powers undermines both democracy & protest
Another Met Police scandal: a black girl was stripped and searched at school. The search, which involved the exposure of her intimate body parts, took place without an appropriate adult present and with the knowledge that she was menstruating. Case review: chscp.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
Sorry to repeat myself, but you *really* need to know this. Under the government's Public Order Bill, anyone who has protested in the previous 5 years can be forced to "submit to ... being fitted with, or the installation of, any necessary apparatus" to monitor your movements.