February 23, 2009

Hot summer for police…and banks

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I would hope and think that the description of what could be this summer is an extreme exageration.

Banks probably deserve some kind of stand, but there is definitely no need for violence and of course the police have a lot of important matters to attend to, without uneccessary violence on their hands as well.

Hot summer for police…and banks

Police are preparing for a “summer of rage” as victims of the economic downturn take to the streets to demonstrate against financial institutions, the Guardian has learned.

Britain’s most senior police officer with responsibility for public order raised the spectre of a return of the riots of the 1980s, with people who have lost their jobs, homes or savings becoming “footsoldiers” in a wave of potentially violent mass protests.

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