AS YOU WELL KNOW THERE WAS A RIOT ON THE ESSEX / CAMBRIDGESHIRE BORDER IN GREAT CHESTERFORD OVER AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND WHEN SEVERAL HUNDRED RIOT POLICE MOVED IN TO SHUT DOWN THE FESTIVAL ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING. THERE WAS NO COMMUNICATION MADE BY THE POLICE TO THE ORGANISERS OR PEOPLE AT THE VENUE. THE ONLY ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE WERE BY A HELICOPTER WHICH IS FAIRLY HARD TO HEAR WHEN YOU HAVE A SOUND SYSTEM PLAYING LOUD MUSIC IN FRONT OF YOU.
ALL SOUND SYSTEM’S WERE SEIZED, RIG VANS & AUDIO EQUIPMENT SMASHED TO PIECES BY RIOT POLICE. RIG OWNERS PERSONAL POSSESSIONS WERE ALSO SEIZED. PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TOLD THE RIGS WILL NOT BE RETURNED UNTIL THE CASE HAS GONE TO COURT WHICH COULD BE YEARS.
A LARGE NUMBER OF PARTY PEOPLE WERE INJURED AND SOME ARE STILL IN HOSPITAL TO THIS DAY. A GIRL RECEIVED A VERY SERIOUS NECK INJURY WHERE SHE WAS ASLEEP IN HER TENT AND RIOT POLICE PURPOSLELY TRAMPLED OVER IT. ONE PERSON MAY HAVE LOST THE SIGHT IN HIS EYE FROM WHERE A POLICE OFFICER BATTERED HIM AROUND THE HEAD WITH A BATTON FOR NO REASON, CS GAS WAS SPRAYED INTO CROWDS OF PEOPLE, IT WAS ALSO SPRAYED ON YOUNG GIRLS, CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13. POLICE DOGS WERE ALLOWED TO ATTACK GIRLS, CHILDREN AND OTHER PEOPLE. AND MANY MANY OTHERS HAVE CUTS AND BRUISES FROM THIS AWFUL CASE OF POLICE BRUTALITY.
THIS HAS TO BE THE WORST CASE OF POLICE BRUTALITY IN THE RAVE SCENE SINCE THE 1990’S AND WE ARE NOT PREPARED TO SIT BY AND ACCEPT THAT THIS IS NORMAL BEHAVIOUR.
SO IF YOU BELEIVE YOU WERE MISTREATED BY THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PAID TO SERVE AND PROTECT THE PUBLIC THEN COME TO THE PROTEST OUTSIDE HARLOW POLICE STATION AT 2PM ON SATURDAY TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP US FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO PARTY.
IF YOU WERE HIT BY A POLICE OFFICER OR SUSTAINED AN INJURY OR HAD YOUR PROPERTY DAMAGED AND DONT WANT TO SEE THINGS LIKE THIS BECOMING A REGULAR OCCURANCE THEN COME AND STAND UP FOR WHAT YOU BELEIVE IN.
THIS MUST BE A PEACEFUL PROTEST IF WE ARE TO BE HEARD AND LISTENED TO. NO MISSILES TO BE THROWN. THERE WILL BE PRESS FROM SEVERAL NEWSPAPERS PRESENT SO THIS IS OUR CHANCE TO GET OUR SIDE OF THE STORY ACROSS, THE TRUTH.
ADDRESS:
HARLOW POLICE STATION.
POST CODE: CM2 6DA
2.PM
ESSEX.
PLEASE BRING BRING CAMERAS AND PHOTOS OF INJURIES AND PREHAPS AN ACCOUNT OF YOUR VERSION OF HOW YOU SUSTAINED YOUR INJURY.
= THANKYOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT =
= SEE YOU THERE =
= UNiTED SOUNDS =
