Thread by @TristanCorkPost

THREAD: Third #KillTheBill protest in Bristol today has been called.
There is still a covid pandemic, & lockdown is still in force.
All the latest updates from College Green & Bristol city centre in this thread, and on this liveblog 👇
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This is the scene on College Green right now.
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest
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The owners of a cafe on College Green said they fear for the future of their business with more trouble tonight. They've managed to weather the pandemic.
Full story from @Rob_Murray92 here
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Police chatting with people hanging out in the spring sunshine on College Green in Bristol

22 of Bristol's leaders, from the boss of the airport to the Dean of the Cathedral, have spoken out together to defend the police, condemn the #KillTheBill rioters and say those involved in Sunday's riot do not speak for Bristol.
#BristolProtest
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Important information for anyone trying to get home from work this afternoon/tonight.
Bristol's main bus company @FirstBSA is diverting buses away from the city centre because of the #BristolProtest. For the full details, read this
#KillTheBill
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Mrs C is currently at work on the NHS frontline with the city centre and College Green between her & home. Bear with, while I just DM her on the best route to take to get home safe at the end of her 13 hour shift...
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest

Adam Larkman, 33, is here more as an observer than a protester, he tells @ConorGogarty. He says the Police and Crime Bill reminds him of 1994’s controversial Criminal Justice Act
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

This is the scene on College Green right now, as the protest is due to get underway. People are arriving with placards and the police are chatting to them
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Harris Pilton, a 34-year-old builder from south Bristol, tells @imogen_mcguckin he is not happy with police handling of the protests
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest

"DOWN WITH FASCISM"...College Green, Bristol
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill
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Several hundred people are now on College Green, Bristol #BristolProtest #KillTheBill
here's the latest scenes.... all quite low key.

Shouts of 'Whose streets? Our streets' go up as people gather around the police talking to someone. People are gathering together now having been spread out a bit before.

M'colleague @ConorGogarty is live on Facebook from College Green Bristol so check it out over on the other social media channel...
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill
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About a thousand people on College Green, Bristol right now, give or take...
Music playing, a few chants, police asking people to space out a bit.

#KillTheBill #BristolProtest

"Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number!
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you:
Ye are many—they are few!"
Andy here, reading Shelley's The Mask of Anarchy, written after Peterloo
College Green Bristol
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

And.... the gathering is now a march
Protesters are off, down to The Centre, Bristol.
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill
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Marchers have made it to end of The Centre in, er, the centre of Bristol, and are being followed by a pretty large police presence
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest
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The march has made it to and then through Castle Park, and is now heading back down Baldwin Street towards The Centre again.
Protesters are chanting 'Whose streets? Our streets!'
Latest updates here
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"There are well over a thousand people, and they are pretty spread out" says @ConorGogarty
Protesters are now walking up Lewins Mead towards the Bearpit, Bristol, but people at the front shout 'this way'! No set route but someone is directing them...
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest

Marchers are going on the main roads around Bristol city centre, with routes into the city centre police station blocked by riot police
Protesters boo as they pass.
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

Police strategy is clear - cut off all routes to Bridewell Police Station in Bristol City Centre
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest
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The main protest march just gathered itself in Castle Park, Bristol, & someone shouted 'College Green' & the march set off again.
Meanwhile, back at Bridewell St police station, a number of police vans just set off
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest
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Back at the Haymarket, there's a sit-in.
A breakaway from the main march has remained facing that line of riot police protecting Bristol's Bridewell city centre police station
@imogen_mcguckin says 50 or so are sitting, another 250 standing
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest

The main march has made it back to College Green in Bristol.
I'm hoping for some more poetry.
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest

Back at the Haymarket, Bristol.
Some are waving daffodils and singing Three Little Birds by Robert Nesta Marley. Or at least the chorus.
The sit-in continues near Bridewell Police Station
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest

Back at College Green and the people from the main march didn't stop long.
Now moving back UP Park Street this time towards Bristol famous Clifton Triangle.
Where's Ben Stokes?
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest

Perhaps with the idea of recreating the Storming of the Great Reform Dinner in 1832 - bit of niche #BristolProtest history there for you - the protest march has turned left & is heading to Brandon Hill, Bristol
#KillTheBill

Oh no, they got to the top, realised it was just Brandon Hill park and have turned around again & heading back down.
Good spot to watch the Bristol Balloon Fiesta, Brandon Hill if you're ever in Bristol for that, by the way
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

Back at Bridewell Police Station and a double line of police face a few hundred protesters who didn't go on that tour of historic Bristol, and just stayed in the Haymarket.

#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

The scene at the Haymarket, near Bridewell Police Station, Bristol city centre
Protesters dance to a tiny tiny little speaker thing.
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest

And our lost protest march from earlier has now found the Haymarket sit in protest. All still party mood, a few chants. #Bristol
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

PC Rain, the police officer's faithful meteorological friend, has come to help the lines of police.
Heavy rain now drenching everyone in the Haymarket.
Bit of Sgt Wind, & Det Supt Hailstones too.

Message from @ASPolice to the protesters. If you read between the lines, it says something like... come on, we're all getting wet here....
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest

https://twitter.com/ASPolice/status/1375521763283628045?s=20

Latest on the situation in the Haymarket Bristol, as the #BristolProtest continues, despite darkness falling and rain falling harder.
#KillTheBill
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Roads are closed, buses stopped & traffic backing up everywhere in Bristol city centre.
So the great 7.30-8pm shift change handover at the BRI, Children's Hospital & St Michael's maternity, is disrupted.
Staff can't leave if night shift hasn't arrived
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest

Police have put their helmets on.
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest

Police are readying to move, and the protesters aren't backing down.
@imogen_mcguckin is live from the scene
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill
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I swear to God a kiddie just shouted into Imogen's phone as she filmed the FB Live at the #KillTheBill #BristolProtest "What do you think of Tottenham?"

UPDATE:
Around 1,000 protesters are facing up to rows of riot police at the entrance to Nelson Street, at the Haymarket in Bristol City Centre right now, as the #KillTheBill #BristolProtest approaches four hours. Police have asked them to disperse
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Bristol protesters are singing and dancing - vid from @ConorGogarty
Police have asked these protesters to leave
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest

Protesters are sitting down in front of the lines of riot police and chanting, in the Haymarket, Bristol right now.
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

Protesters chant 'you're sexy, you're cute, take off your riot suits' as the sit-in on the Haymarket, Bristol continues at the #KillTheBill #BristolProtest

Police remain in their line, facing sitting and chanting protesters on Rupert Street in Bristol.
Behind them Bridewell Police Station is protected by a row of police vans too. A thousand remain sitting on the street.
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

Here, protester Roo Warryn, 19, from South Bristol, tells @ConorGogarty why she is there on the #KillTheBill #BristolProtests
"If peaceful protest is criminalised, every protest will end in a riot", she said.

Meet Greg Dring, 71. He's a retired clinical psychologist from Bath.
With a placard that says 'everything is annoying', Greg fears the new bill will see people imprisoned because they are deemed ”annoying”, so he has come to Bristol to join the #KillTheBill #BristolProtests

Things getting a bit tense again. Some protesters started chucking eggs at police.
Protesters urge each other to sit down in the face of lines of riot police like this at the head of Rupert Street, Bristol
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill

What @ConorGogarty can see: "Protesters urging those in front to sit down because they fear police are going to move in. A woman turns round and says: 'They don’t want to sit down because they’ve been stepped on'."
#KillTheBill #BristolProtests #Bristol

Someone has erected a tent.
That's the A38 through the centre of Bristol
pic by @imogen_mcguckin
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill

more tent action on the #KillTheBill #BristolProtests

The man who erected the tent, a 50-year-old from Wales who declined to tell @ConorGogarty his name, confirms he will remain at Haymarket Bristol, until police move him on.
(Have a feeling they'll do more than just move him on)
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill

Reporter @ConorGogarty is live on @BristolLive's Facebook page right now from the #KillTheBill #BristolProtests
Watch below
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A protester stares out a police officer in riot gear at Haymarket, Bristol, as the stand-off in the #BristolProtests #KillTheBill continues

Bit of Bristol drum n bass at the front of the protest line.
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill

Police have begun to move forward to kettle the protesters, with side roads also blocked.
Many of the protesters don't appear to realise this
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill #BristolProtest

Police are amassing behind the main original line of police, preparing to move forward from Rupert Street.
Protesters look set to be dispersed towards Broadmead and the Bearpit, imminently.
Items thrown at the police, as the crowd boos
#KillTheBill #BristolProtests

Police are using their shields to push back people at the entrance to the Haymarket, on the corner of the Bay Horse Pub.
People react with chants of 'Shame on You'.
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

Police have connected their two front lines from Rupert Street and Lewins Mead.
The police dogs are being deployed, and batons are being used
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

Police using dogs and batons to push the crowds back off the Haymarket towards the Bearpit.
#KillTheBill #BristolProtest

Police have formed a new line halfway across Haymarket, in a bid to push protesters away and get them to disperse.
Police horses held in reserve for now
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill #Bristol

This was the moment the police began to advance in Bristol through Haymarket.
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

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Lines of police push protesters back towards the Bearpit from Haymarket in Bristol
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

There are now two front lines, with police pushing one group of protesters down Horsefair towards Cabot Circus, and the other on the Haymarket being forced back towards the Bearpit
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

Police with dogs move protesters back past Primark on both sides.
Large numbers of police involved. Protesters have reached the Bearpit on one side, and outside Debenhams on the other.
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

The police are holding a new front line at the junction of Haymarket and the Bearpit roundabout, and across Marlborough Street.
Protesters remain in the Bearpit.
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

Police statement from @ASPolice
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

https://twitter.com/ASPolice/status/1375577284812365827?s=20

Scenes soon after the new frontline was established at the Bearpit. Dispersed a bit since then, five or ten minues ago, but maybe 100 protesters remain, maybe more.
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

.@TheBristolCable's @AlAviram filmed this about 40 mins ago. Police pushing protesters with their shields, as one protester attempts to grab a shield.
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

https://twitter.com/AlAviram/status/1375574926120382466?s=20

Chaotic scenes in Bristol city centre now.
Streets are full of riot police, protesters dispersed all over the city centre: around the Bearpit, Castle Park. Roads into Broadmead blocked by police.
Police just left at speed from Bond St/Bearpit
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill

Police are advancing into the Bearpit.
Mounted police, vans and officers are edging forward onto the roundabout in Bristol
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill

Mounted police take the Bearpit Bristol
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

Police and mounted police are pursuing protesters through regular motorists on the Bearpit roundabout in Bristol.
Police moving at speed through the Bearpit to clear protesters
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

Waves of mounted police charges to force people down Bond Street from the Bearpit, Bristol, and (not on this video) someone chucked a firework at the horses.

#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

Video of moment protester hit a police horse with a firework in Bristol just now. Video by @ConorGogarty
Bond Street, Bristol #BristolProtest #KillTheBill

More video of the charge down Bond Street of police, vans, dogs, and horses. Protesters backed up now to Newfoundland Street. And the advances continue.
video by @ConorGogarty
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill.

Meanwhile, over on the 2nd front, police officers and dogs push protesters out of Cabot Circus, to Lower Castle Street and Castle Park
Video by @imogen_mcguckin
#KillTheBill #BristolProtests

Police are formed in lines at various locations around the city centre, at the bottom of Newfoundland Street, into St Paul's Street, and into Castle Park, trying to disperse any large groups of protesters that are lingering.

This is the police line advancing, and soon withdrawing, into St Pauls Street, Bristol.
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill

There's a big police presence in Bristol city centre still.

Police with dogs are pushing through the Castle Park area, lots of police with horses back at the Haymarket and around the Bridewell Police Station, and...
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill

... at the bottom of the M32, at Newfoundland Street, a number of protesters are throwing bottles & other missiles at police vans & officers.
Protesters are gathered up St Paul Street and the Portland Square area, and police are trying to withdraw
#KillTheBill #BristolProtests

Other missiles = a bike pedal,
thrown at police as they retreated back into their vans after deciding not to pursue a group of around 40 protesters at the other end of St Paul St, Bristol.
The pedal & bottles hit police vans
#BristolProtest #KillTheBill

Very ominous big rumble of thunder over Bristol just now.
lots of rain too.
This looks like it's petering out as protesters head home and police continue to patrol the city from riot vans
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill

My colleague @MatthewDresch from the Mirror was boofed hard by riot police with their shields outside Cabot Circus earlier.
#BristolProtests #Bristol #KillTheBill

https://twitter.com/MatthewDresch/status/1375606889740898305?s=20

Another angle of @MatthewDresch's assault by police.
Officers continue to strike him after and as he's saying he's press
#BristolProtests #KillTheBill #Bristol

https://twitter.com/ShartiTheClown/status/1375614292138074114?s=20

ANNND I'm done. Almost 12 hours since the first protesters began arriving at College Green.
For the as-it-happened look back on another extraordinary, sickening, horrible night for Bristol, go here.
The full write up will be published at dawn on Saturday.
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One more
Here's @Urban_Pictures capturing the moment a man with arms crossed for protection tells police he is 'disabled and vulnerable' with I think Aspergers or autism (?) gets told he's a 'f***ing idiot' by police then whacked with shields a few times

https://twitter.com/Urban_Pictures/status/1375638943023124486?s=20

I'm wincing at that. My nephew is ext. neuro-atypical and if that were him, I'd be pleading with him to get back away from the police there. Hope that man is ok.

A full account of the sickening scenes on the streets of Bristol last night.
Police used dogs, horses, batons and shields to break up an overwhelmingly peaceful sit-down demonstration in the Haymarket.
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