Here's To The Police
In October I wrote a counter poem in response to a post that an Extinction Rebellion activist had posted titled 'Here's To The Police' - It was essentially thanking them for their 'hard work' in 'looking after' activists in custody, shortly after the posts, a picture was released that activists had sent flowers to cops on the 10th October 2019 at Brixton Police Station. I do believe they call this Stockholm syndrome ' is a condition which causes hostages to develop a psychological alliance with their captors during captivity'. Our experience of the Police within the anti-fracking campaign has been that of anything, but peaceful. Lancashire Police (as well as many other UK police forces) have been very 'hands on' in their approach of how they deal with protesters and by 'hands on' I mean, hands on, feet on and everything else on top of you, whilst you helplessly lie on the ground wondering what the fuck happened to your...
