April 1st - more seriously!

The G20 demo was a success on many fronts. Up to 8000 swarmed to the Bank of England and had their voices heard over the madness of bailing out those whose bosses were stealing from the people. Threadneedle street was momentarily full of jugglers and dancers, hammocks strung between lampposts.

More were at the anti war rally at the US embassy (Obama announced 21,000 more troops for Afghanistan) and even more set up a climate camp outside the 'Carbon exchange'. Larger turn outs were put off by the trumped up announcements of the police of intended anarchist violence.

The violence I saw came mostly from the police.

It was deliberate ,it was nasty, and I'm sure permission came from high. From 'kettleing' to beating people on the back of the legs, to using Shields as weapons, I witnessed it all. This was all well before the now notorious incident where a paper seller was struck, then pushed to the floor. He later died from internal bleeding despite an earlier hurried post mortem in which a corrupt coroner claimed he had died from a heart attack.

All this caught on the cameras that new legislation says we are not allowed to use on the police.

One can easily see why they have made it a crime to catch them in the act.

His death will not change the culture that has infected the polices response to legitimate protest. They see us as the enemy, an inhuman one at that. They have gone too far, and there is little that anyone in power is prepared to do to stop them.

Maybe this death will make some police officers think twice before they follow their orders, but we must keep filming and try to hold them accountable for their actions.