Charged: how the police try to suppress protest

"Since the 1980s, successive British governments, from Thatcher to Johnson, covertly plotted to suppress protest, using standardised aggressive tactics - from batons to horse charges to kettling. Through undisclosed documents and eyewitness accounts; the authors reveal organised police violence...

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Main Author: Foot, Matt (Author)
Contributors: Livingstone, Morag
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: London New York Verso 2022
In:Year: 2022
Online Access: Table of Contents
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UB: KB 21 A 2241
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Keywords:
POLICE brutality > Great Britain
Police misconduct > Great Britain
Protest movements > Great Britain
Großbritannien > Polizei > Gewalttätigkeit > Überwachung > Protest > Geschichte
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Summary:"Since the 1980s, successive British governments, from Thatcher to Johnson, covertly plotted to suppress protest, using standardised aggressive tactics - from batons to horse charges to kettling. Through undisclosed documents and eyewitness accounts; the authors reveal organised police violence against miners at Orgreave, print workers at Warrington, anti-poll tax campaigners, student protestors, and Black Lives Matter activists"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xiv, 315 Seiten, Illustrtionen
ISBN:9781839762499