Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

Charged : how the police try to suppress protest /

Foot, Matt,

Charged : how the police try to suppress protest / Matt Foot, Morag Livingstone. - First hardback edition. - 315 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-309) and index.

"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"--

9781839762499

2021060201


Police brutality--Great Britain.
Police misconduct--Great Britain.
Protest movements--Great Britain.

HV8195.A3 / F66 2022

363.20941