>> Have you evidence for your assertion that masked police
>> officers dressed otherwise than in uniform act to provoke violence? If the police were regularly
>> organising something like this it would be in the Guardian/Mail within moments, surely?
I don't think I asserted that they provoked violence. Certainly I did not intend to do so. If you searched with that 'tag' then you're probably going to draw a blank.
The complaint is that officers thus dressed use their anonymity to manhandle protestors in ways that would earn them a report if they were identifiable.
There are plenty accounts of officers concealing their rank insignia and or service numbers for example at G20 and Mayday marches. Environmentalists report similar at Kingsnorth Power station and Fracking sites. Examples here:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8518828.stm
www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/jul/22/kingsnorth-protest-police-tactics
I'm pretty sure they were a feature at BLM protests last summer.
Allegations of such behaviour go back at least as far as the Miners Strike in the eighties and probably Grosvenor Sq. long before that.
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