Charlie Veitch, the founder of the peace activist group ‘The Love Police’, was pre-emptively arrested on Thursday the 28th of April 2011, around 1615h, on an allegation of a conspiracy to cause public nuisance. As the video evidence shows, Charlie was not read his rights, and no warrant was presented for his arrest or for the search of his living space.

He was held for 16 hours at Parkside Police Station in Cambridge. Outraged locals, students, and activists protested outside the station, and concerned citizens from around the world inundated the station with phone calls to voice their concern of this totalitarian police behaviour. Parkside police were obstructive to his lawyer, family, and partner, let alone friends and supporters, by not providing any information of his wellbeing or whereabouts.

At around 1000h on Friday the 29th of April 2011, Charlie was collected by the Metropolitan Police from Parkside and taken to an undisclosed police station in London for 8 hours. Efforts by his lawyer, family, and partner to locate him were made in vain – he had effectively been ‘disappeared’ into the police system. Charlie was denied his right to a phone call from London, again continuing the obstruction of his access to his lawyer, family, partner and supporters. He requested that the police telephone his partner to inform her of his whereabouts, which was promised but not performed. With his family in the dark as to his whereabouts, concern was considerably growing.

Charlie was eventually released on bail 23 hours and 45 minutes after his arrest at approximately 1600h on Friday 29th April from Edmonton Police Station, London – just within the 24 hour limit that a person can be lawfully arrested and detained without charge. - http://www.cveitch.org/

>> ^burdturgler:
http://www.videosift.com/video/How-to-survive-a-Terror-Stop


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The full Canary Wharf segment is here: http://www.videosift.com/video/Love-Police-is-annoying-private-security-forces-with-hugs

Good stuff

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Before I chrome the lot, can't keep it home a lot
'cause when I frequent the spots that I'm known to rock
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I love police blotter hijinx. Ever read the Arcata Eye? It's from weed capital Humboldt County, CA. So you can imagine...

http://www.arcataeye.com/index.php?module=pagesetter&tid=2&topic=7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arcata_Eye

even when i was really young i loved police squad. it was like the american monty python, but with half the arm-flapping slapstick and twice the deadpan delivery.