{"id":82,"date":"2010-11-26T21:15:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T20:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2010-11-26T21:17:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T20:17:23","slug":"police-being-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/police-being-scary\/","title":{"rendered":"Police being scary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saw this video today, from the anti-cuts protest in London a couple of days ago. I find it worrying.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Guardian summarises<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nVideo footage has emerged showing mounted police charging a crowd of protesters during this week’s tuition fees demonstrations, the day after the Metropolitan police said tactics “did not involve charging the crowd”.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThe article also explains:<\/p>\n

\nHowever the [police] spokesman did also say that charging was a “quite specific term”.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suspect this is the basis on which the police said there wasn’t any. <\/p>\n

Well, I don’t want to argue over the word. Let’s say instead “ride as a group quite briskly in the direction of where people are standing”. It still looks scary and dangerous to me, and I’m unconvinced that it was necessary. <\/p>\n

[I’d be interested to know from any horsey readers what type of gait they reckon those horses were doing. It was faster than walking. What d’you reckon?]<\/p>\n

… and young people being inspiring<\/h2>\n

On the other hand, how beautiful is this pic<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Thanks @solobasssteve<\/a> for the links that set me off reading this stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brief thoughts on a video inc some police on horses riding briskly towards where anti-cuts protesters were standing. Plus a link to a beautiful pic of some of the young protesters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}