The police were on job. Set up cordons and lines of vans when we got to Buckingham Palace, and then started separating us and pushing us apart and trying to get us to move on for being outside the designated protest area. Had a copper tell me that if I continued wearing a Guy Fawkes mask I would be arrested, which I thought was pretty fucked up.

Take note, world, if you want to shut down a peaceful protest then look no further than the Met on Nov 5 2016.

Oh fuck, that's why IFC was playing V for Vendetta today.

Oh right, wasn't something supposed to happen today?

getting arrested for a march

lmao england

come on meta you'll post like 20 volumes about shit no one cares about and 1 sentence about stuff we're interested in

tell us how your day went

wtf why didn't you blow up the palace?

should've done it just to smite the government

If you kill the government then how could they arrest you?

come on meta you'll post like 20 volumes about shit no one cares about and 1 sentence about stuff we're interested in

tell us how your day went

There were a lot of people in Trafalgar Square. We all marched down the street--apparently with coppers at the front guiding us--and headed to some area I can't even remember the name of (first time in Central London (maybe near Westminster Cathedral)). They had "Failure to comply may result in arrest" beamed in green lettering on one of the buildings. Then we went to Buckingham Palace; couldn't even get close to it, they had metal fencing set up and riot police with dogs. I think they sort of freaked because the Palace was outside the 'designated route' for the protest; loads of police vans turn up, I see a couple people get arrested, there's chanting etc.

Anyway there's this wall just across from the Palace with a gap leading into some grassy area, and we were both in front and behind the wall. So the coppers push their way through and set themselves up in a line in the gap in the wall, splitting us up. Some of us tried to break the police line, but more of them rushed over and pushed us away--I managed to fuck up my ankle when I was being shoved. Then I had a copper tell me I could be arrested if I didn't remove my mask.

It kind of died off. They pushed us down the road, away from Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Sqaure. We heard we were supposed to regroup at Big Ben, but we checked it out and it was dead.

Yeah, that was my day.

EDIT: The police were expecting it to get ugly. They cracked down hard.

What were you protesting?

Quote from: TurkTurkBangBang on November 06, 2016, 06:58:15 PM

What were you protesting?

Me personally? Or the march in general?

Both, unless they're the same.

Quote from: Kupo & the Two G-strings on November 06, 2016, 05:56:50 PM

come on meta you'll post like 20 volumes about shit no one cares about and 1 sentence about stuff we're interested in

tell us how your day went

There were a lot of people in Trafalgar Square. We all marched down the street--apparently with coppers at the front guiding us--and headed to some area I can't even remember the name of (first time in Central London (maybe near Westminster Cathedral)). They had "Failure to comply may result in arrest" beamed in green lettering on one of the buildings. Then we went to Buckingham Palace; couldn't even get close to it, they had metal fencing set up and riot police with dogs. I think they sort of freaked because the Palace was outside the 'designated route' for the protest; loads of police vans turn up, I see a couple people get arrested, there's chanting etc.

Anyway there's this wall just across from the Palace with a gap leading into some grassy area, and we were both in front and behind the wall. So the coppers push their way through and set themselves up in a line in the gap in the wall, splitting us up. Some of us tried to break the police line, but more of them rushed over and pushed us away--I managed to fuck up my ankle when I was being shoved. Then I had a copper tell me I could be arrested if I didn't remove my mask.

It kind of died off. They pushed us down the road, away from Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Sqaure. We heard we were supposed to regroup at Big Ben, but we checked it out and it was dead.

Yeah, that was my day.

EDIT: The police were expecting it to get ugly. They cracked down hard.

That sounds tense. Thanks for the story.

Quote from: Ignatius J. Reilly on November 06, 2016, 07:38:39 PM

EDOs

?

Erectile Dysfunction Ordinance

Did you shitpost on them?

Lmao UK sucks sooooooo much dick