The G20 Protests: Global Economic Meltdown

This is a video everyone should watch, giving the real story about what happened around Bank, and together with other reports from the event clearly shows the need for fundamental changes in policing. There are just so many ways in which the police stepped over the line of what is acceptable, and although there are clearly some aspects which are down to the criminality of individual officers, much of it comes from the top not just in the police force, but also their political masters.

For me the most chilling aspect is the police ordering the journalists to go away under pain of arrest - so they could really lay into the demonstrators. But there are also so many other places in the film where the press seem to be particular targets for police violence.

I was at Bank when the protest started, but left to go to the Climate Camp just before the kettle was fully established - my press card for once got me through a police line. Apart from wanting to photograph there, I'd also decided by that time that it wasn't safe for me to stay at Bank as I don't carry a helmet or wear protective gear - photographers really should not have to in the UK.

Another great bit of film. As someone who was there, (I'm Michael Preston, the journalist in the film who had his arm broken) I can honestly say that it tells the true story of what it was actually like.

I feel very annoyed that the police harrassed and attacked journalists and I think that the terrifying thing is that an internal culture is gradually being create by the police, (or maybe has already been created) where some officers feel is is wholly acceptable to bash the press.

This combined with the outpouring of unrestrained violence against unarmed and largely peaceful demonstrators is, sadly, the modern face of policing in the UK today.

Shocking film exposing contemptuous behavior by the police including the use agent provocateurs - i.e. police posing as demonstrators. The British police force should be ashamed of their actions over this summit - and if we, the public, do not want to end up living in a police state, we had better figure out how get the police under control. We have every right to demonstrate at a time like now. This political policing, the use of violence to deter protests - is absolutely unacceptable in a society that prides itself as free and democratic.