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23 Mar, 34 tweets, 19 min read
Scenes on College Green Bristol about 15 mins ago for another protest against the Police & Crime Bill.
This time by van-dwellers, travellers & Gypsies, who say their way of life would effectively be criminalised by changes to law included in the bill #KillTheBill #BristolProtest
For latest updates on the situation on College Green, Bristol, follow liveblog on the @BristolLive site here 👇🏼
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest
bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-n…
Park Street & College Green (the road) have now been closed. #BristolProtest #KillTheBill
More pics from earlier.
Park St closure now extended to The Centre.
Looks like police are going to stop this protest
Those protesting had set up camp and appeared set to try to stay overnight on College Green. Don’t think the police are going to let that happen
Police horses move towards College Green, Bristol. The police operation to break up this protest camp is underway #BristolProtest #KillTheBill
Police horses and police dogs wait just around the corner
Stand off, or rather sit off, in progress. Protesters sitting in road near College Green Bristol, faced by line of riot police with dogs & horses behind #BristolProtest #KillTheBill
The scene near College Green right now. Protesters sitting in the road
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill
Protesters - & there are around 50 of them maybe - are sitting chanting 'ten years for protest, five years for rape' at a line of riot police facing them
It's a reference to the sentencing priorities of the Bill
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest
Latest updates
bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-n…
This was how the protest camp on College Green, Bristol was cleared a while ago. Those evicted moved on to Deanery Road nearby and are currently sitting down in the road faced by riot police, horses and police dogs
#KillTheBill #BristolProtests
This was the protest camp that was broken up by police in riot gear, forcing most of those who were taking part in the protest out & down Deanery Road, where they are now staging a sit-down protest
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill
The current scene in Deanery Rd, near College Green, Bristol #KillTheBill #BristolProtests
The sit down protest continues.
Protesters staging a sit-down protest on Deanery Road, Bristol have laid down a daffodil for each one of the riot police facing them
They're protesting Police&Crime Bill's impact on Gypsy/Roma/Traveller community
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill
updates👇
bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-n…
They were chanting 'ten years for a statue five years for rape' earlier, about the Police & Crime Bill. Disappointing no one has turned this into a chant yet tbh
The @ASPoliceHorses have now left the scene, as midnight comes around.
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill
Latest updates & videos from Bristol here
bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-n…
Video here from an earlier confrontation at Bristol College Green when a #KillTheBill protest camp was broken up.
A protester sitting on the floor is dragged back by his hair by a police officer in riot gear as others are forced back
#BristolProtests
Tweeted a video earlier of when the police moved in on the protest camp on College Green, Bristol. Here's what happened immediately after that.
The shrine around the tree is for Sarah Everard & has been there for a week or more
#KillTheBill #BristolProtests
The video of the sitting protester being pulled by their hair backwards by a police officer in riot gear is understood to have happened in the middle of the above operation
Here's video number 3, of the earlier police operation to clear the #GRT College Green Bristol protest camp.
Follows on from two above.
Protesters sat down & were forcibly removed by riot police
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill
As part of that same operation, here's a video taken by someone who describes how police officers in riot gear were trampling through the memorial shrine for Sarah Everard on College Green, Bristol
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill
Here's more footage, following on, from when police move in on the #GRT protest camp in Bristol tonight
This happened earlier & is part of thread above.
Riot police pull up people sitting & lying down on College Green
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill
It's important to give a bit of context here.
The Police & Crime Bill has parts that curtail traditional ways of life of Gypsy Roma & Traveller communities, & also people who just live in vans.
Bristol has A LOT of those - high rents & housing crisis
#KillTheBill #BristolProtests
A striking image of the #GRT protest camp on College Green Bristol in between the 2nd & 3rd waves of police operation to clear #KillTheBill protesters who were camped in tents/sitting down
#BristolProtests
Back to now... Protesters are now lying down in the road and the line of riot police has advanced very close to them.
Arrests have begun. Police are taking the protesters away one by one
Some protesters are lying down on their backs side by side and have linked arms. This may prove a bit trickier for the police officers to arrest them one by one.
To recap, police in Bristol tonight:
Forcibly broke up a #KillTheBill protest camp
Tore down tents
Trampled over the memorial to Sarah Everard
Dragged man by his hair
Pushed a group of sitting protesters chanting 'peaceful protest' off College Green w riot shields, dogs & horses
The police probably outnumbered the protesters. both around 200-strong.
The protest was in breach of coronavirus lockdown legislation.
The protest finally ended tonight when riot police charged over the prone protesters on Deanery Road, & then with horses, chased the remaining protesters & media all the way down to Anchor Road, warning them they had to disperse.
Here is the Avon and Somerset police statement about tonight's events
Here is the full story from last night’s events in Bristol
Police force protesters out of College Green on night of conflict
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill #BristolProtest
bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-n…
Tweeted late last night of the final charge from police & horses over the protesters lying on the road of Deanery Lane, Bristol in the early hours of last night. Here it is on video
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill
bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-n…

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2.30pm & the first person with a sign was told to move on
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BREAKING: The number of people who tested positive for covid-19 in Knowle West, Bristol, has jumped by 1067% in a week. That's not a typo...
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If track & trace worked at all, it would do.
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Anyone in Knowle West any ideas? Massive Christmas party? A nursing home outbreak?
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It took 83 mins from toppling to dunking & the police didn’t intervene once
Afterwards, the mayor & others praised police for their restraint - no one was injured & nothing else was damaged- compare that to scenes elsewhere
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The moment the people of Bristol pulled down the statue of Edward Colston, slave trader
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It's now being rolled towards the floating harbour.
Colston opened up the transatlantic slave trade to Bristol merchants & around 20,000 people, incl 8,000 children, died on his ships before they even reached the Americas.
Bristol became Britain's leading slave trading port.
People quickly leapt on the statue as it fell.
Worth noting that the tall office block behind in this picture is 'Colston Tower', & it's on Colston Avenue with the (soon to be renamed) Colston Hall concert venue beyond.
#Bristol
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