Charged : how the police try to suppress protest / Matt Foot, Morag Livingstone.
Edition: First hardback editionDescription: 315 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN: 9781839762499Subject(s): Police brutality -- Great Britain | Police misconduct -- Great Britain | Protest movements -- Great BritainDDC classification: 363.20941 LOC classification: HV8195.A3 | F66 2022Summary: "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 type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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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"--