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Repression Anti-Nuclear Activists to Sue SA Police May 3rd 2003 Thirteen environmentalists, a commercial cameraman and an aboriginal minor have issued a claim against the South Australian police for violence, brutality and the deprivation of liberty. An 11-year-old local girl was capsicum sprayed, a young man was targeted by police and beaten by 8 officers in full view of the assembled group, and the police used capsicum spray as if it was fly spray on the fleeing crowd. 31 people were also locked in a shipping container after their arrest. |
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Environmentalists Issue Claim In Supreme Court Against S.A. Police Friday May 2nd 2003 Today, a group of 13 including environmentalists, a commercial cameraman and an aboriginal minor are issuing a claim against the South Australian police for violence, brutality and the deprivation of liberty.
The group seeks to defend the democratic rights of all Australians to bear witness and object to issues relevant to the community. Increasingly, the powers of the military and the state seek to threaten the rights of the individual, freedom of speech and the right to protest.
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Police tactics by mick lambe, May 03, 2003 pariahnt@yahoo.com
top left: Murray gets sprayed by Const. Michels From http://lab-rats.tripod.com/ The Police role as armed thugs for the corporate state is very clear in the articles above. My understanding of why pepper spray was introduced was as an alternative to using firearms. Yeah right ... http://www.country-liberal-party.com/pages/NT-PoliceCriminals.a.htm I'm old enough to remember when the Police didn't carry automatic pistols. ===================== I was reminded of this incident, which outraged me greatly at the time. Still does... ------------------------ From the Labrats site.
We took the road through the Flinders. A road we had often travelled in car van or paddy wagon during the actions at Beverly uranium mine. We had certainly not forgotten in this part of the world for they sent out a welcoming commitee from the Leigh Creek police station to greet us on the road. The bus was registered & the driver had the correct heavy vehicle license, but the police didn't seem interested in the legalities. The police came hooning towards us flashing their lights, did a screetching u turn on the highway and pulled us over. I think the first words were "Marcus we know we know who you are, get out of the bus." Marc who was not even driving, was then dragged out in a head lock & punched in the chest. His face was red from strangulation by Sen. Const. A Juanay. I approached them confused and concerned and was attacked by a female officer who threw me in a bush. I repeatedly tried to stand up and was pushed back down. Meanwhile they forcefully took Marc to the paddy wagon. Murray (the bus driver) handed his license to Const. G michels just to have it thrown on the ground and lost. When Murray asked why they were arresting Marc they threatened to charge him with loitering, because he was standing between the bus and the cop car. Const. Michels then jumped on him, held him down in the middle of the road and emptied a whole can of pepper spray into his face. Murray was then thrown into the paddy wagon with Marc. Inside the paddy wagon Murry was in intense pain and started to have an asthma attack & threw up numerous times. Marc tried to tell the cops about the attack but they refused to believe him and just sprayed water in his face which made it even worse ( water doesn't get rid of pepper spray it just spreads it. The fumes from the pepper spray were so bad Marc says "...it burnt my throat out and made it extremely difficult to breathe, and even the cops said that they had to open their windows in the front so that they could breathe properly". At the cop shop marc was intensely questioned under video surveillance. Murray was taken to hospital because he couldn't see and was having trouble breathing, his whole body was red from pepper spray and he was suffering from shock. The nurses at the hospital didn't know what to do and had to take turns, because they couldn't stay in the same room because of the fumes from the pepper spray. Both Spinna George and I were left stranded by the side of the road with a bus a caravan and no licensed driver and pepper spray in our eyes. George hitched a lift to Leigh Creek to find out what had happened to our mates, while me and Spinna minded the bus and tried not to rub our eyes. Later that afternoon in Leigh Creek Iwas followed by a police car. They jumped out of the car and surrounded me on the street saying they were going to charge me with something. I didn't know what they were talking about so i told them I was on my way to the toilet and Iwas busting so I couldn't stay around and chat (which was true), so I walked off to the servo. Murray was still in quite a mess after returning from
hospital he had to have the plaster on his broken arm replaced because
the police had broken his other plaster when he had been placed in an
arm lock. He was also wet from being hosed down & could only see
out of one eye. Marc was walking around topless after his shirt had
been used as a rag to wipe the spray out of murrays eyes. By about 6pm
that night we were all re-united except for George who would not get
out of the pub. ------------------------------------------- Some great articles and photos on Beverly in this site. ... in Solidarity PARIAH ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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