George Monbiot: G20 protests: Riot police, or rioting police?

Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

George Monbiot
1 April 2009

The trouble-makers are out in force again. Dressed in black, their faces partly obscured, some of them appear to be interested only in violent confrontation. It’s almost as if they are deliberately raising the temperature, pushing and pushing until a fight kicks off. But this isn’t some disorganised rabble: these people were bussed in and are plainly acting in concert. There’s another dead giveaway. They are all wearing the same slogan: Police.

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Updated @1402 on 1 April 2009:
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