Sit down my arse - the opening words of a Garda inspector at a Drogheda water charges protest. A mob of Gardai went on to single out one young man and strip him out of his clothes as they drag him along the ground before arresting him. Interestingly the Garda were using Section 8 of the Public Order act to try and intimidate the water charge resistors worth. We havent heard of any attempt to use the 20m exclusion injunction in the last week apart from the court case that saw suspended sentences arising from when they used it weeks back. As is common on many water charge protests the community initially responded to Garda provocation by putting their hands in the air, a parallel gesture with the Ferguson protesters even though in the south of Ireland uniformed Garda are not routinely armed. In 2007 Garda at Rossport were instructed to use brute force rather than arrests against the community in the infamous No arrest Policy that they later wrote about in the Garda review. The eyewitness account of this period at wsm.ie/c/resisting-shell-mayo-policing-erris-eye… is well worth a read.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:58:51 +0000
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