Anyone who is assaulted by the police should take the following steps:
Report the incident to the police complaints authority (however ineffective)
Visit the doctor (however minor the injury)
Write-up the incident in full and publicise it (however time-consuming and boring)
The campaign against police violence should have number one priority on the left. If the freedom to organise and protest is undermined, no political movement for change is possible.
There are some on the left who box themselves in like this. “Ah,” they say, “we have already analysed the role of the police as elements in the state’s repressive apparatus, so what you are telling us about police violence is nothing new. Next question please” But that's just paralytic intellectualism.
Every case of police assault needs recording.
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