Counting The Cost Of Injuries

[Lonan3]

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When climate camp protesters descended on the site of the Kingsnorth power station for a week-long summer demonstration, the scale of the police operation to cope with them was enormous.

Police were accused of using aggressive tactics, confiscating everything from toilet rolls and board games to generators and hammers. But ministers justified what they called the "proportionate" £5.9m cost of the operation, pointing out that 70 officers had been injured in the course of their duties.

 

Papers acquired by the Liberal Democrats via Freedom of Information requests show that the 1,500 officers policing the Kingsnorth climate camp near the Medway estuary in Kent, suffered only 12 reportable injuries during the protest during August. The Home Office has now admitted that the protesters had not been responsible for any injuries.

 

The other injuries reported included "stung on finger by possible wasp"; "officer injured sitting in car"; and "officer succumbed to sun and heat". One officer cut his arm on a fence when climbing over it, another cut his finger while mending a car, and one "used leg to open door and next day had pain in lower back".

 

A separate breakdown of the 33 patients treated by the police tactical medicine unit at the climate camp shows that three officers had succumbed to heat exhaustion, three had toothache, six were bitten by insects, and others had diarrhoea, had cut their finger or had headaches.

 

Jeez! Things were tough on the front line, weren't they? Surely there ought to be a campaign medal of some kind!

[John Wright]

Spin

[bluemonday]

"stung on finger by possible wasp";

 

Ex Crets boat?

[jehovah]

May have been a mossie in disguise, or an anarchist bee.

[La_Dolce_Vita]

Police were accused of using aggressive tactics, confiscating everything from toilet rolls and board games to generators and hammers. But ministers justified what they called the "proportionate" £5.9m cost of the operation, pointing out that 70 officers had been injured in the course of their duties.

 

£5.9 million! Wow, now that is a waste of the people's money. Disregarding the unfortunate truth, if 70 officers HAD been injured, how would this justify the cost and outcome of this operation? This is Climate Camp, they are not terrorists.

[thebees]

Yes, these people are terrorists, look see

[La_Dolce_Vita]

Yes, these people are terrorists, look see

 

Hahaha Reclaim the Streets is a terrorist organisation, how ridiculous. How they want to define terrorism is up to them, but it does reflect how governments and the media can throw the term terrorism and terrorist about and apply it to action taken by people against the military or in opposition to the State when people try and fight for freedoms.