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Black & Brown movement lawyers supporting racialised protesters + #BLM activists /monitoring police @ protests #LegalObservers /blackprotestlegal @protonmail .com

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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
4 months
🇵🇸IMPORTANT info for anyone at #FreePalestine protests today: 😷mask up, avoid police surveillance 📹 don’t post photos/videos with protesters faces 🦺 find a Legal Observer if u see arrests/police violence 🔎 read our bustcards ⬇️ 🤐 don’t talk to cops 🙏🏾 keep each other safe
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
URGENT: Our LEGAL OBSERVERS are currently witnessing and being subject to high levels of police aggression and force. They are also being told that Legal Observering is illegal under current restrictions.
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
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We are concerened and outraged that the @metpoliceuk are refusing to release our Legal Observers. They are still in a kettle and it is 22:57
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
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🇸🇩 We must show up for our communities who are protesting the escalating brutality & violence in Sudan. Our Legal Observers said the London protest went smoothly today, but if you are attending the march next weekend - please read our bustcards & keep each other safe ✨
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sara is on refaat’s campus ❤️‍🔥
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London - join the global day of action for Sudan 🇸🇩 🗓 Sunday 14th January 🕰 12:00 (midday) 📍 UAE Embassy, London bring a friend, a snack, and a flag 🫶🏾 organised by @wirebitten
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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🚨🚨URGENT - two of our Legal Observers have been arrested and taken to custody #KillTheBill #London 🚨🚨
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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Our Legal Observers are also noting an arbitrary and disproportionate use of force against any protesters by the Bandstand, the police are currently rounding protesters for simply standing there. #ReclaimTheseStreets
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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🚨🚨🚨When we say the police HEAVILY police Black, Brown & Racialised protesters, this is what we mean 🙅🏿🙅🏾 This is Downing Street right now at solidarity protests for Palestine & Colombia #SaveSheikhJarrah #FreePalestine #ColombiaSOS
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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The police are trying to curtail accountability by threatening our legal observers who are rightfully and legally holding them to account
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📢One of our Legal Observers is still being held in custody. They were arrested over 12 hours ago. We were told he would be released imminently around 5am. We are also aware that many protesters also remain in custody. Many released have been w no further action📢 #KillTheBill
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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We are sending Legal Observers to tonight’s #ReclaimTheStreets vigil @ Clapham Common to monitor the police. We stand in solidarity with all women subject to gendered, racialised + state violence, & highlight that Black women have always been at the sharp end of police brutality
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
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🚨🚨 #FreePalestine protest update: our Legal Observers are reporting arrests + several threatened arrests against protesters wearing keffiyehs. This is the British state suppressing Palestine solidarity and people’s right to protest - pure and simple.
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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3 years
For all those attending the #ReclaimTheStreets vigil please see below for our updated virtual bustcards. . Please share!!! . Solidarity to all
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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We have set up a Go Fund Me so that people can support and donate for resources to help administer the legal support for the upcoming BLM marches:
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Black Protest Legal Support UK, organized by Ife Thompson

My name is Ife Thompson and I am the founder of Black Protest Legal Support UK. I set up t… Ife Thompson needs your support for Black Protest Legal Support UK

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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
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🚨🚨Our Legal Observers have seen the police stop people for wearing face coverings & arrest 2 people for allegedly refusing to remove them. The police targeting #FreePalestine protesters in this way is clearly racialised & we fear for both intelligence gathering + intimidation.
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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🚨🚨URGENT: our Legal Observers have just reported four police officers WITH GUNS have arrived at the #FreePalestine #SaveSheikhJarrah protest. If you are on the ground, stay safe, look after each other & leave no one behind. Find our #LegalObservers for support or DM us
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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🚨🔥Carnival Weekend🔥🚨 Black people are still 9 times more likely to be stopped and searched. We know cops will undoubtedly surveil, harm & criminalise! So remember: - stick together - no chats w/cops Read our bustcards on your rights if you’re stopped by them 👇🏾 Stay safe🖤
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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We are proud to be an organisation led by Black and Brown women, that sent Legal Observers to monitor the police this weekend at protests led by women of colour @SistersUncut . We are always on the frontlines even though we are the least safe - don’t forget it #KillTheBill
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
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IF YOU ARE STUCK IN THE KETTLE PLEASE FIND ONE OF OUR LEGAL OBSERVERS, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GIVE THE POLICE YOUR NAME TO BE RELEASED. #LDNBLM
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
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❗️OUR STATEMENT: We reject UK legal discourse which seeks to provide legitimacy for war crimes being committed by Israel. It betrays a racist disregard for Palestinian lives & we refuse to be silent in the face of complicity by members of our own profession. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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🚨🚨🚨THIS is what police intimidation & violence against our communities at protests looks like. Constant unprovoked charges, in full riot gear, at remaining #FreePalestine protesters #SaveSheikhJarrah #PoliceBrutality . We saw the same tactics at #BlackLivesMatter last year
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
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📢URGENT STATEMENT📢 BPLS can confirm 4 of our Legal Observers were arrested on Tuesday evening, with 2 taken to police custody. 3 of those arrested were from Black, Brown or Racialised Groups. Read our full press release below👇🏿👇🏾 #LegalObservers #KillTheBill #BlackLivesMatter
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: The Met has confirmed NO FURTHER ACTION will be taken against our 5 Legal Observers who were arrested at #KillTheBill protests earlier this year & has withdrawn their fines. Racist & violent policing MUST be challenged✊🏿✊🏾 Read our full press release below⬇️
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@libertyhq
Liberty
@libertyhq
3 years
BREAKING The Metropolitan Police has dropped fines given to @blkprotestlegal Legal Observers unlawfully arrested at #KillTheBill protests. Met said: “we accept [LOs] have an important role to play in providing independent scrutiny of protests and the policing of protests".
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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1/ 🚨BREAKING🚨 5 of our Legal Observers are suing the Met police for arresting, detaining and assaulting them at 2021 Kill the Bill protests in London. Lend your solidarity and support by donating to their challenge if you can, and sharing this 🧵widely:
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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UPDATE- Our Legal Observers have only just been released- at 01.29am.
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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We are very concerned by the Met police's criminalisation of Arabic. We have seen this with their removal of banners & arrests of women with Arabic signs. The word Intifada means ‘uprising’. That is what is happening. A global uprising against the oppression of Palestinians 🇵🇸
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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🚨🚨 Police at King’s Cross Station have disrupted a sit-in for Palestine, by arresting multiple people using significant force. This is a blatant attempt to suppress solidarity with Palestine. But people have the right to protest for a free Palestine and a #CeasefireNow 🇵🇸
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
4 years
Updated Bust Cards for BLM protesters in the UK! Please save these to your phones if your are attending. Legal Observers will also be handing these out at the Protests!
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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📢ATTENDING A #KillTheBill PROTEST THIS WEEKEND?📢 Read our UPDATED bustcards w/ important legal info + SHARE WIDELY. Find our Legal Observers on the ground if you need support 👉🏿Mask up 👉🏾Write a protest solicitor’s no. on your arm - no duty sol 👉🏿 No comment #KnowYourRights
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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BLM KETTLING ADVICE THREAD: 1/9 Be aware that the police have been kettling #BlackLivesMatter protestors. Yesterday many protesters, and our Legal Observers, were kettled for hours until 1.29am. Take snacks and water to the protest.
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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Police have their batons out and riot gear on. Our Legal Observers have seen a few very violent arrests. State violence is in full force this evening against our communities #FreePalestine #SaveSheikhJarrah
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
Police officers continue to deploy violence & aggression towards our independent Legal Observers. This was one of out LOs in #Bristol yesterday. With further police powers, we expect this use of force to increase. #KilltheBill
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
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❗️One million people are expected to march with #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 in London this Saturday. We call on @MayorofLondon to take action to ensure that people can travel to the march & that the Met police stops its oppressive policing tactics. SIGN HERE ⬇️ ✍🏽
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This campaign needs you now

Petition to protect the right to protest in the United Kingdom (Free Palestine Protests)

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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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🚨We are concerned to hear over 1,000 police officers are deployed to the Free Palestine protest. This is a racist response to an expression of solidarity with the Palestinian community. BPLS Legal Observers will be on the ground. We have a right to protest! #freePalestine
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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🚨ATTENTION🚨(cw: police violence) BPLS issues urgent statement on events at the #KillTheBill protest in #London last night, including kettling, use of PAVA spray, widespread police brutality & the arrests of two BPLS Legal Observers who were held in custody #PoliceCrackdownBill
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
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If you’re at #NewScotlandYard now for the #KillTheBill protest we have Legal Observers on the ground. Look out for people in high vis. Check out our digital bustcards and write one of the solicitors numbers on your arm in sharpie in case of an arrest 👇🏿👇🏾 @SistersUncut
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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We are greatly appreciative of the 200+ Barristers and Solicitors that have come forward to provide pro-Bono legal support to those involved in the BLM protests in the UK.
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
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🚨🚨UPDATE - our Legal Observers are still being held in custody. Police refusing to accept they were there lawfully as volunteers who are exempt under the COVID regs. We are already challenging the arrest of 4 LOs the other week with @libertyhq representing #KillTheBill
@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
Our 4 #LegalObservers , arrested on 16 March, are challenging the Met’s decision to detain them Monitoring the police is vital to upholding our protest rights, and arresting our Black & Brown LOs reflects decades worth of racialised policing at protests FULL PRESS RELEASE👇🏿👇🏾
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
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We have #LegalObservers on the ground at today’s #KillTheBill protest in #London . Around 50 riot police already on the streets & spotted a potential #FacialRecognition van. Wear a mask, find a Legal Observer in high vis for a bustcard/legal support, no comment if police approach
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸IMPORTANT info for anyone at #FreePalestine protests today/this weekend: 🚨mask up, avoid police surveillance, do NOT post pics w people’s faces 🔎 read our bustcards ⬇️ 🦺 find a Legal Observer if u see arrests/police violence 🤐 don’t talk to cops 🙏🏾 keep each other safe
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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📢URGENT #BRISTOL ADVICE📢 👉🏿 Our Legal Observers are still on the ground, find them to get a bustcard / if you need advice 👉🏾 Call Bristol Defendant Solidarity if you get arrested 👉🏿 No comment, no duty sol, write a number below on your arm 👉🏾Email us if you need legal support
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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Our 4 #LegalObservers , arrested on 16 March, are challenging the Met’s decision to detain them Monitoring the police is vital to upholding our protest rights, and arresting our Black & Brown LOs reflects decades worth of racialised policing at protests FULL PRESS RELEASE👇🏿👇🏾
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@libertyhq
Liberty
@libertyhq
3 years
BREAKING Liberty Lawyers will take the Metropolitan Police to court unless the force drops fines against @blkprotestlegal legal observers it unlawfully arrested at a protest on Tuesday 16 March. The Met has 2 weeks to respond.
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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Our Legal Observers in #Bristol last night reported repeated mounted & riot police charges + attack dogs on rotation. Monitoring events on the ground is vital to holding the police to account. Email us if you need legal support/rep, esp any Black or racialised protesters affected
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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🚨🚨🚨UPDATE RE #PimlicoAcademy : we are in touch with affected families & pupils now + have a team providing legal support led by our Black & Brown lawyers We must defend the right to protest against institutional racism in schools #BlackLivesMatter
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
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🚨REPORTS OF KNIFE ARCHES @ CARNIVAL 🚨 This is classic racial profiling and a direct attempt at the criminalisation of Black communities. There is no legal basis for these racist knife arches, you do NOT need to go through them and police CANNOT compel you to.
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
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🚨🚨Reports from our Legal Observers at the #FreePalestine protest that the police are harassing them, calling them ‘plastic lawyers’ & laughing when they note shoulder numbers. They are also intimidating protesters, telling people ‘there are more of us than you’.
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
1/2 We are devastated and heartbroken to hear that last week, Georgia Lassoff unexpectedly passed away. Georgia was one of our Legal Observers and a close friend to many on our committee. She was a trailblazer as well as a fierce anti-racist ally.
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Georgia Lassoff (1987 - 2021) | Red Lion Chambers

It is with great sadness that Chambers learned on Friday 10 September that Georgia Lassoff had unexpectedly passed away. The news is a huge shock to all our members and staff. Our thoughts and...

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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
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If you’re attending the Palestine protests tomorrow - please check out this helpful explainer from @libertyhq It outlines current protest laws and explains your right to express solidarity with Palestine in light of comments from the Home Secretary 🇵🇸✊🏾
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EXPLAINER: Palestine Protests - Liberty

What powers have the police used/could the police use to arrest people protesting about events in Israel and Palestine? Can you lawfully protest about this in the UK? When can the police restrict/ban...

www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
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💥💥PROTESTING TODAY?💥💥 🙋🏾‍♀️Know your rights 🤐No comment ⁉️Under what power? 🙅🏿No caution w/o legal advice 👩🏾‍💼Get a protest lawyer ✍🏽Write ^ no on u in sharpie 👩🏽‍🤝‍👨🏿Stay together 🦺Find Legal Observers 4 support #CloseTheCamps #FreePalestine #RightToProtest #BlackLivesMatter
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
4 years
We are curating a hub of Barristers & Solicitors who can provide Pro-Bono support to BLM Protesters in the UK. Please DM to get involved!
@EssexBarrister
Alexandra Wilson
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I haven’t yet but has anyone else who follows me? Will share if I do!
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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Anyone who was kettled at Downing Street #LDNBLM - please email blackprotestlegal @protonmail .com ASAP.
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
4 years
Thank you to all our Legal Observers, many of whom have only just been released from kettles. It is 01.47 am
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Abimbola Johnson
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Shift done @blkprotestlegal .
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
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We stand in solidarity w/the family of Chris Kaba tomorrow in expressing their rage at the racist policing which led to the state sanctioned murder of brother Chris Kaba 🙏🏾 Our LOs will be out in full force monitoring police conduct 🦺 This will not go unnoticed 🔥✊🏾
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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🎉🎉🎉 Today is our 1st birthday!!! We are taking a day to celebrate our successes, to reflect on how we can grow, to thank everyone who has supported us & shout out all our formidable Legal Observers who keep showing up for our communities✊🏿✊🏾 #BlackLivesMatter
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
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🚨🚨URGENT STATEMENT ON POLICE BRUTALITY (cw violence, racism & Islamophobia): we condemn the horrific & extreme police violence against #FreePalestine protesters in #London yesterday, resulting in several protesters - incl children - & our Legal Observers sustaining injuries
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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@damiengayle
Damien Gayle
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Police apparently arresting legal observers at what remains of the #KillTheBill protest in Aldwych. @libertyhq check it out.
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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📢 We have issued a joint reponse with @libertyhq to the potentially unlawful kettling of #BlackLivesMatter protesters yesterday 📢
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Liberty: Policing of BLM protest potentially unlawful - Liberty
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
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‼️There is no legal basis for police to stop + swab people on the street 🤐You can REFUSE to consent 🚨Police can only swab you if you are under arrest, at a police station & 18+ 🚗OR if you are driving ⬇️ Thread below from one of our LOs w/ useful resources from @Release_drugs
@g__ferris
Griff Ferris
@g__ferris
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If police try to stop and swab you: you can refuse. It’s your right. While police regularly abuse their power and act outside the law, they have no legal power to forcibly swab or drug test you on the street
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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10 years ago today, Mark Duggan was killed by police and taken from his family & loved ones. This police violence was met with impunity. Community uprisings which followed across London were met with more anti-Black police brutality & state racism - on the streets & in the courts
@guardian
The Guardian
@guardian
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I saw what sparked the Tottenham riots – 10 years on, it could happen again | Stafford Scott
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
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We have LOs on the ground at Parliament Square. Remember you do not have to talk to the police (including "liaison officers" in blue bibs; they start 'chats' to gather intel). As @SistersUncut say: 'If you get harassed by the police stick together, and no one gets left behind'
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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URGENT- the police are trying to kettle @AllBlackLivesUK protesters right now on #RegentsStreet . We have Legal Observers on the ground making their way to the area. Any people in the kettle please DM us if you need legal support & share our digital bustcards #BlackLivesMatter
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All Black Lives UK
@AllBlackLivesUK
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They are attempting to kettle us on regent’s street
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
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You did not respect the right to protest when you charged horses at #BlackLivesMatter crowds. You did not respect it when you brutalised #FreePalestine activists. You did not respect it when you arrested our Legal Observers. The main perpetrator of harm at protests is always you
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
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The British state has tried to silence Palestinian solidarity, but it can’t because ppl have taken to the streets in their 000,000s 🇵🇸 So the Met are outsourcing policing to social media, via a racist PR strategy to target some via online surveillance - incl workers + protesters
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
A joyous day strategising & celebrating our first birthday🎂We also celebrate + applaud all the Black, Brown & Racialised protesters who are making strides for our collective liberation, in the face of relentless state violence. Our communities are our power ✊🏿✊🏾 #BlackLivesMatter
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@blkprotestlegal
3 years
Whilst we welcome these findings & condemn the widespread police brutality in both Clapham Common & Bristol, we also highlight that Black, Brown & Racialised protesters have been subject to horrific levels of violence @ #BlackLivesMatter , #FreePalestine & other protests in the UK
@BBCPolitics
BBC Politics
@BBCPolitics
3 years
Police breached "fundamental rights" at a vigil for Sarah Everard and "Kill the Bill" protests earlier this year, an inquiry by MPs finds
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
🚨🚨BREAKING: we are pleased to see that #PimlicoAcademy has confirmed students will not be excluded for protesting against racist & Islamophobic policies. We urgently wrote to the school last week with @BLAMCharity , defending the students’ right to protest #BlackLivesMatter 👇🏿👇🏾
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@warwickmansell
Warwick Mansell
@warwickmansell
3 years
...Some suggestion that Future might actually have changed its stance following media coverage of reported exclusions possibility+ legal representation for students.
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
🚨🚨🚨CW POLICE VIOLENCE: our Legal Observers are reporting extreme police violence on the ground in #London . Riot police are pushing protesters with shields & acting v aggressively #FreePalestine #SaveSheikhJarrah . Stay safe, find our LOs for support, leave no one behind🚨🚨🚨
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
Just days after the Met accepted the important role of Legal Observers at protests, an officer at the #KillTheBill protest in #London this afternoon accused one of our LOs of “hostile reconnaissance” for taking down their shoulder number. They are relentless in their aggression.
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
2 years
These two officers are intelligence gatherers. Their only job today is to capture your face on camera to have on their system. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO AVOID BEING FILMED! We advise you mask up to PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY ✊🏾🥷🏾🔥
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
2 years
🔥🔥NEW BUSTCARDS JUST DROPPED🔥🔥 See below our UPDATED bustcards ⬇️ Share w/ your friends, family & networks, esp those protesting this weekend #NoPoliceInSchools 🚨Remember: no comment to police Qs + ‘chats’, if detained/arrested ask under what power. Keep each other safe 🌞
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
7 months
🚨🚨SIT IN FOR PALESTINE AT LIVERPOOL STREET STATION NOW!! 🇵🇸 🦺 If you are there + experience any harassment from the police, or see any police violence / arrests, pls find one of our Legal Observers for support ✍🏾 Also make sure you read our bustcards w info on protest rights
@SistersUncut
Sisters Uncut
@SistersUncut
7 months
🚨HUNDREDS OF COMMUTERS HAVE JOINED OUR SIT-IN AT LIVERPOOL STREET STATION TO DEMAND AN END TO THE SIEGE ON GAZA, CEASEFIRE NOW! END THE OCCUPATION 🚨 JOIN US. WE ARE MANY.
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
7 months
🚨🚨🚨🚨 Any Legal Observers still on the ground, please DM us urgently. Thanks
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
2 years
Potential facial recognition van at #KillTheBill protest in London - at the rear end of Lincoln’s Inn Fields. 🥸 Stay safe 😷 Mask up 🚔 Resist police surveillance!
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
HMICFRS found that the police did not act "inappropriately" or in a "heavy-handed manner" at the #ClaphamCommon vigil for Sarah Everard. This entirely contradicts what our independent Legal Observers saw on the ground that evening + what we've routinely seen at protests: A THREAD
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
4 years
Thank you for such an amazing response in regards to Legal Support for the UK BLM Protests. We have had over 250 Barristers and Solicitors sign up to offer Pro-Bono support and 70 volunteers. We are currently at capacity for lawyers and volunteers! Thank you for your solidarity.
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
4 years
Anyone who was kettled at Downing Street #LDNBLM - please email blackprotestlegal @protonmail .com ASAP.
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
With Keir Starmer supporting more police on the streets, pushing pro-carceral policies, and now this dutty friends of the police group, Labour opposing the #PoliceCrackdownBill is simply political point-scoring & nothing to do with actually standing against institutional racism🙅🏿
@jessicamordenmp
Jessica Morden MP
@jessicamordenmp
3 years
🚓 Proud to support the launch of Labour Friends of the Police at #Lab21 today. #newporteast
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
If you got an FPN, were arrested or assaulted by police at last night’s vigil on #ClaphamCommon & need legal advice/rep, please get in touch. We have a network of lawyers who can assist in criminal defence or civil actions against the police: blackprotestlegal @protonmail .com
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
2 years
🚨🚨Protesting tomorrow against the racist #PolicingBill + #BordersBill ?KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!! 🤓 Read our bustcards⬇️ 🤐 Don’t talk to cops 😷 Mask up (covid safety + resist police surveillance) 🦺Our Legal Observers will be at London’s #KillTheBill demo. Find us for advice/support
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@killthebill_1
#KillTheBill Official
@killthebill_1
2 years
Location announcement for London march, Saturday 15th January Meet📍Lincoln Inn Fields Time⏳ 12 midday Standing against the #PCSCBILL and alongside @EuropeNottm for their Nationality and Borders Bill Protest #PoliceBill #protests #NBB #Tories #HumanRightsDay #wewontbesilenced
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
4 years
We have 65 Legal Observers on the ground today at the #BlackLivesMatter protest in London. Please look out for them in orange or green High Vis which say 'Legal Observer' on the back. They have bustcards and can provide advice and support. Stay safe everyone.
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
4 years
Police at Downing Street are currently using S.50 unlawfully to force protesters into giving over their personal details - including DOB.
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
🚨🚨POWER TO PIMLICO STUDENTS: we are so proud to have worked with students at #PimlicoAcademy to defend their right to protest against racism. We & @BLAMCharity continue to stand in solidarity with them & are relieved Pimlico has withdrawn threats of exclusion #BlackLivesMatter
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
4 years
Please see our most up-to-date Digital Bust Cards!! These are the same ones we have printed out. Please share and save on your phones.
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
4 years
If you are attending the BLM protests and are concerned about this impacting your immigration status, please read this two-part information sheet produced by @blkprotestlegal and @JCWI_UK . You can call JCWI for FREE and confidential advice. Please share @ukblm . #BlackLivesMatter
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
7 months
This is British policing - violently suppressing people’s right to protest and those who monitor them and hold them to account. A reminder that the last time cops arrested & mistreated our Legal Observers, they were forced to drop charges and they’re now being sued 👀
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
We will have Legal Observers at the vigil for Sabina Nessa this evening at 7pm. We hope we won’t be needed and that women & non-binary people of colour can mourn our sister in peace 🙏🏾
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
Reports of Israeli forces firing at protesters in Palestine who are resisting forced evictions in #SheikhJarrah . We stand with Palestinian protesters & join the call on social media channels to stop silencing protesters who are trying to hold the police to account #FreePalestine
@theIMEU
IMEU
@theIMEU
3 years
Right now—the last Friday of Ramadan, the most sacred time of year for Muslims—Israeli forces are shooting rubber bullets & stun grenades at Palestinians inside Al Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem, the third holiest site in Islam. There is no escaping the occupation’s violence.
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
4 years
1/ #BPLS is alarmed at the police tactics deployed at yesterday’s #BLM protest in Hackney Town. One of our volunteer Legal Observers has sustained injuries following a violent assault by the police.
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
🚨🚨URGENT: Our Legal Observers are reporting more police violence at #FreePalestine #SaveSheikhJarrah protests in #London , with at least two arrests and police kettling a group in Hammersmith RIGHT NOW
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
4 years
Thank you to all the lawyers who have come forward so far to support this project. It is deeply appreciated! Please keep sharing and forwarding it on!
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
We have legal observers on the ground at the @UFFCampaign march in central London. If you need us, find someone in a high vis and get a bustcard. If police approach you, remember NO COMMENT. No justice, no peace. #NoMoreStateDeaths ✊🏿✊🏾
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
We express our deepest & heartfelt condolences to the family of Dea-John Reid, as we collectively grieve another Black life lost to racist violence. Rest in power. This vigil in Birmingham was a demonstration of communities resisting together in solidarity, unity, strength & love
@LoloUnplugged
Ashlee Elizabeth-Lolo
@LoloUnplugged
3 years
Justice for Dea-John Reid.
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
Our Legal Observers are reporting VIOLENT arrests. Police are grabbing ppl & dragging them behind police lines, actively stopping our LOs from providing support, & taking arrestees out of view. Riot police are also charging at remaining protesters #FreePalestine #PoliceBrutality
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
So proud of our volunteer for sharing their experiences in @galdemzine about the limitations of protesting & even Legal Observing when trans & a migrant. The police use racist borders & institutional transphobia to uphold systemic oppression #KillTheBill
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
7 months
Solidarity with the Free Palestine protest today. 🚨 the political environment is extremely hostile to Palestinian solidarity and is cracking down on protests more widely 🚨 remember DO NOT SPEAK TO POLICE OFFICERS 🚨 our Legal Observers will be on the ground if 🚨bust cards ⬇️
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
BPLS is looking for LEGAL OBSERVER volunteers for ongoing protests in London, Bristol, Manchester, Birmingham & Cardiff, to monitor police conduct & safeguard the rights of protesters. We strongly encourage volunteers from Black, brown & racialised groups. Email us to sign-up
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
7 months
🚨🚨If you’re are attending this emergency vigil today for Gaza 🇵🇸 🤐 DO NOT SPEAK to cops - incl blue bibs who are intelligence gathers 🦺 our Legal Observers will be on the ground - find them if you need support ↪️ download and share our bustcards ✊🏾 keep each other safe
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@PSCupdates
PSC
@PSCupdates
7 months
🚨JOIN US TODAY - EMERGENCY VIGIL FOR GAZA 🚨 When: Today (Wed 18th Oct) 5pm Where: Outside Downing St Join us today to remember the 3500+ Palestinians killed over the last 10 days, including the 500+ Palestinians killed yesterday at Al Ahli hospital in southern Gaza.
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
2 years
Avoiding police surveillance at protests 😷
@SwimmerJlo
Julia Gulia
@SwimmerJlo
2 years
What's a non-Covid reason you like wearing a mask?
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
3 years
The Met really does not want to be held to account, to be scrutinised & for the public to see what goes on during police interactions - esp when it involves racialised ppl. This is why they are arresting our Legal Observers at protests + this is why they don’t want videos shared
@MPFed
Metropolitan Police Federation
@MPFed
3 years
Metropolitan Police Federation calls on government and force leaders to tackle social media firms that enable footage of officers dealing with incidents to be shared.
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
4 years
We will be on the ground again tomorrow at the NO JUSTICE. NO PEACE Protest! Know your rights and check out our Bust Cards for #BLMUK protesters! Please save these to your phones if you are attending! #BLM
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Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
7 months
Also reports that some arrests have been particularly violent. Please keep each other safe and find our Legal Observers for support.
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@blkprotestlegal
Black Protest Legal Support UK
@blkprotestlegal
7 months
Protesters standing their ground. The cops are the ones who need to go 🔥 If you are a trained Legal Observer and can go down to support at Kings X now - please do!!!
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