Provacateurs: G20 Police 'Used Undercover Men to Incite Crowds'

Provacateurs: G20 Police 'Used Undercover Men to Incite Crowds'

by Jamie Doward and Mark Townsend


An MP who was involved in last month's G20 protests in London is to call for an investigation into whether the police used agents provocateurs to incite the crowds.

Liberal Democrat Tom Brake says he saw what he believed to be two plain-clothes police officers go through a police cordon after presenting their ID cards.


Police and protesters clash in London on 1 April 2009. Photograph: Chris Ison/PA


Brake, who along with hundreds of others was corralled behind police lines near Bank tube station in the City of London on the day of the protests, says he was informed by people in the crowd that the men had been seen to throw bottles at the police and had encouraged others to do the same shortly before they passed through the cordon.

Brake, a member of the influential home affairs select committee, will raise the allegations when he gives evidence before parliament's joint committee on human rights on Tuesday.

"When I was in the middle of the crowd, two people came over to me and said, 'There are people over there who we believe are policemen and who have been encouraging the crowd to throw things at the police,'" Brake said. But when the crowd became suspicious of the men and accused them of being police officers, the pair approached the police line and passed through after showing some form of identification.

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This shit happens all the time.

Link arms and surround them, tell them they're under citizen's arrest, march them to the police lines and tell the police exactly what you saw them do.

Just don't expect it to appear on the police blotter the next day. Don't ever expect the coward press to report it.

Catch the bastards fast before it escalates.

to all the tricks of provocateurs and to countermeasures against them. One needn't get one's head busted - or worse - for no good reason. Plenty of '60s protestors and organizers are still around who can pass along their wisdom to new generations. Live to protest another day!

They did it in Ottawa in 2007. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2962268