pasttenseMay 15

#OnThisDay in London legal history: a jury finds the killing of a copper to be 'Justifiable Homicide', 1833.
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After police penned a radical demonstration calling for political reform in Clerkenwell, a battle followed, which left 1 police officer dead. The inquest jury brought in a verdict of ‘Justifiable Homicide’ on the grounds that police had attacked the people.

The enraged coroner locked the jury in to try to force them to change their verdict, to no avail… The verdict stood. The juries were feted throughout the year by the radical movement…

Our post includes a sideswipe at modern ex-#spycop, sexual predator, ex-Tory councillor, & general loser Andy Coles: Will his shit book ever appear?

Today in London legal history: a jury finds the killing of a copper to be ‘Justifiable Homicide’, 1833.

On the repression of a radical rally, the killing of a policeman, and the inquest verdict… with a digression to take in recently exposed former spycop Andy Coles. Oh yes, there’s a link…

LONDON RADICAL HISTORIES
pasttenseApr 12
#OnThisDay in London festive history, 1997: Liverpool dockers and Reclaim the Streets ‘March for Social Justice’ ends in Trafalgar Square street party - and a police riot, enabled by
#spycop Jim Boyling
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Today in London festive history, 1997: Liverpool dockers and Reclaim the Streets March for Social Justice

This is a post about a Reclaim the Streets action in 1997, the police response to it, and the police infiltration of activism that we now know underpinned the event.  Preface 1: This is a very long…

LONDON RADICAL HISTORIES
Matthias MonroyMar 4
Wer kennt diesen britischen #Spycop?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/9391005.stm
Er muss demnächst vor der UCPI aussagen. Unter dem Alias „Simon Wellings“ soll er auch beim G8 in #Heiligendamm 2007 gewesen sein.
Hinweise an: https://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com.
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joeblowenarbolMar 3
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#OnThisDay in spooky history, 1981:
MI5 send memo to Special Branch asking for intelligence on new squatted anarchist bookshop at 121 Railton Road Brixton.
#spycop Roger Pearce reports on 121 for the next 3 years.
An account of spying & reporting on 121:
https://pasttense.co.uk/2025/10/27/surveillance-of-the-anarchist-121-centre-by-special-branch-undercover-officers-1981-1999/
Matthias MonroyFeb 4
In der britischen #UCPI hat der #Spycop "Jason Bishop" ausgesagt, Aktionen gegen die DSEI-Waffenmesse als Bedrohung für "das finanzielle Wohlergehen des Staates" übertrieben zu haben. Nur damit Friedensaktivisten ausgeforscht werden konnten:
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/police-spied-anti-arms-activists-protect-interest-state-inquiry-hears
Police spied on anti-arms activists to protect interest of the state, inquiry hears

POLICE officers spied on anti-arms trade campaigners and “exaggerated threats” of protests against the world’s largest arms fair, a government inquiry heard.Evidence from the reopening of the Undercover Policing Inquiry this week included claims that officers surveilled peace organisations, including the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT).Tranche 3 (Phase 2) of the probe into the Met’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) infiltrated mainly climate, anti-war and left-wing groups between 1993 and 2008.

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pasttenseJan 12

#OnThisDay in in London's radical history: the Colin Roach Centre launched, Hackney, 1993, as local activist organising space, named for 25-year old killed by Stoke Newington police.
Later the Centre is infiltrated by #spycop Mark Jenner.

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Today in London’s radical history: the Colin Roach Centre launched, 1993

On January 12th 1983, young black man Colin Roach died of a gunshot wound after being shot in the foyer of Stoke Newington Police station. Locals assumed the police had killed him, as they had a re…

LONDON RADICAL HISTORIES
Show threadpasttenseOct 15, 2025
Rampart was spied on (among his other murky activity) by Special Demonstration Squad #spycop ‘Rob Harrison’
https://powerbase.info/index.php/Rob_Harrison_(alias)
His real name is expected to be released publicly anytime now, as hearings of Tranche 3 of the Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing get underway.
Rob Harrison (alias) - Powerbase

quangobaudAug 31, 2025

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pasttenseJul 12, 2025

#OnThisDay in policing history: Special Demonstration Squad #spycop Bob Lambert sets fire to Debenhams Store, Harrow, 1987, having agent provocateured an animal rights anti-fur plot that also saw Romford & Luton stores fired
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More on Powerbase: https://powerbase.info/index.php/Bob_Lambert

Today in policing history: #spycop Bob Lambert sets fire to Debenhams Store, Harrow, 1987.

A few short years ago, Bob Lambert’s star was rising high. Having retired from the Metropolitan Police in 2008, he had built on his reputation as a Special Branch Detective Inspector, an expert on …

LONDON RADICAL HISTORIES
COPS campaignJan 20, 2025

The Undercover Policing Inquiry's been questioning #spycops boss Tony Waite. Tom Fowler talks to the Undercover Research Group's Donal O'Driscoll, summarising how this manager oversaw corrupt & unlawful spying that breached Home Office rules, & nobody seemed to care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZJmXhmU7rc

#spycops #spycop #police #policecorruption #cointel #ucpi #undercoverpolicinginquiry #undercoverpolicing #undercoverpolice #undercover #spy #spying #publicinquiry #activism #repression

Spycops inquiry reaction: lunchtime of 20 Jan 2025 (HN115 DCI Tony Waite evidence, day 1)

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