Police behaviour at protests not changed since Orgreave, say activists | The miners’ strike 1984-85
Police behavior with protesters has not changed since miners’ strike, but they warned the newly announced investigation campaigns about Orgreave about potential “more injustice”.
Speaking at a press conference after the Labor Party, he announced that he would conduct a legal investigation into severe policing in the stake, or Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign said that the courses have not been learned 41 years ago since then.
“Now we look at all demonstrations, rallies, peaceful protests that continue throughout the road [history, since Orgreave] And now it happens… If you look at what happened in Sarah Everrard, if you look at what happened in Palestinian demos in London right now, if you look at the ordinary piles, on police behavior, what happened behind the scenes [has not changed]Chris Hockney said the campaigns.
“Basically, they are there as the state agents and we see from time to time. And there will be more injustice because the police do.”
In the early 1980s, under the Government of Margaret Thatcher, the Ministry of Interior and Senior Police Officers formed a secret tactical manual that redefined as “reasonable power ğinde when they came to the protesters. For example, the police allowed the accusations of the static crowd to “neutralize non -violent protesters.
These supplementary forces, which are defined as “paramilitary” tactics, have not been repealed, although there is never a parliamentary approval. Another campaignist Chris Peace added: “I think when the issue became politician and the policing in Orgreave was directed politically. I think this is an important point.”
On June 18, 1984, the conflict between the police and striking miners at the Orgreave Cocuting factory in South Yorkshire said that the police represented the “turning point ına to the use of force to close the protest.
While Thatcher claimed that the government did not intervene in the policing of miners’ strike, various home office documents have revealed comprehensive active intervention, including influencing, managing and financial support in their actions against striking miners since then.
Speaking before the press conference, the Mayor of South Yorkshire Oliver Coppard said that the police were under “completely new” leadership in Güney Yorkshire compared to the strike days.
“I know we have any difficulties in South Yorkshire and in this country when it comes to policing protests, because they are always difficult. But I think what we see in Orgreave was one million miles away from the policing path of the protests.”
Orgreave added that the investigation is important because iz We need reality and we need accountability and we need justice ”.
However, the Police Federation in South Yorkshire said that local operations are already “breaking”. Steven Kent, President of the Police Struggle Association in Southern Yorkshire, said, “The courageous colleagues hit the house of government cuts for service because the people fought safely with the people fighting safely.
“This will be long and long – and the associated costs of this investigation will lead to less money in the policing bag, which will only have a negative impact on the South Yorkshire people.”
Camping Kevin Horne, one of the 95 miners arrested in Orgreave, said the investigation could “do the wrong thing right”, but that the mining communities could help ör return to something normal again ”.
He said: “We have a chance to clean Arduvaz so that our children and grandchildren can respect the police again.”
