A 22-year-old woman will face charges for holding up a sign that said “fuck imperialism,” while a man was handcuffed and placed in the back of a police van for asking who elected King Charles III.
This is the propaganda potential of the kettle, when it becomes intolerable or life threatening any action to escape it becomes the thing the police blame for injury and loss of life. Hillsborough was an early example of that, but the repetition of the tactic hasn't always gone unnoticed.
and of course any police line will be credulously and cynically repeated by the media because the media is owned by men who hate the working classes on a fundamental level and would crack the world if they thought a penny might fall out
This is the propaganda potential of the kettle, when it becomes intolerable or life threatening any action to escape it becomes the thing the police blame for injury and loss of life. Hillsborough was an early example of that, but the repetition of the tactic hasn't always gone unnoticed.
and of course any police line will be credulously and cynically repeated by the media because the media is owned by men who hate the working classes on a fundamental level and would crack the world if they thought a penny might fall out