what's happening in bristol
tws for violence and police brutality
Today (21/03/21) in Bristol there was a #KillTheBill protest held in response to the archaic Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill that passed it's second reading in parliament the other day. the bill will, among other things, give a huge increase to the power of the police, and allows them to essentially make all protesting illegal.
Several thousand people in Bristol gathered and marched to the local police station, sitting down and chanting "10 years for protests, five years for rape", referencing the sentencing laws in the new bill.
Into the evening, protesters and the police began to clash. Projectiles were thrown at the police, and windows of the station were smashed in, culminating at 8:24pm a police van was vandalised and set on fire by protesters.
All of the reporting on the riot has been incredibly biased towards the police and the government, the BBC article specifically making sure to emphasise how the police 'didn't do anything it wasn't their fault honest'. The protesters are being labelled as 'far left extremists' and condemned by many high ranking officials in both Bristol and the UK government as a whole.
#KillTheBill is a massively important movement to stop the tories getting an authoritarian chokehold on the country, and everyone out in Bristol (and the other cities similarly having protests) are fighting for the people of the UK against the elities in Westminster and their archaic new laws. So far two police officers have been injured, and they have none of my sympathies, those are with the protesters bravely out tonight. ACAB.
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