Wide Angle Pt 2: The second student protest in the UK.
Written by duckrabbitI love the fact that this image is being used to balance the coverage of the first student protest in the UK.
It shows the violence but it also shows another angle that is often neglected visually yet I find it much more absorbing. A great story and gives the audience a broader perspective that goes beyond the obvious.
Respect to these school girls in the image, the BBC photo editor and the photographer.
Author — duckrabbit
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Discussion (5 Comments)
That’s a great photo and an interesting take.
Some people need to go and live in other countries to realize (for all their faults) just how lucky we are to have the police we have.
Seriously.
So because other countries have more authoritarian police regimes, legal demonstrators here should put up with being temporarily imprisoned for no reason?! come on. That van was a set up too.
Lee, did say I think it was right for the police to do that?
I just don’t think you help a cause when you make them the target.
This the same police that killed Ian Tomlinson last year, Jean Charles de Menezes before that, that have killed hundreds in custody, and that were used a private political army by thatcher in the eighties to help smash the miners. we sure are lucky!
Ian Tomlinson died because of a stupid action by a policeman, but there was no intent to kill him and there could have been no expectation this would be the result … unlike throwing a fire extinguisher off the building.
As a comparison against the way police behave in other countries yes we are lucky. That doesn’t in anyway condone their actions when they commit a crime.