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From: "SchNEWS" (schnews@mail.gn.apc.org)
To: "SchNEWS Subscribers"schnews@gn.apc.org
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 16:09:19 +0000
Subject: SchNEWS 180, 21 August 1998
IT'S MY PARTY
"We're up for it today. We know you're just a bunch of professional anarchists"
- Chief Inspector Reid
Another street party, another dollar... So Bristol Reclaim the Streets showed impeccable professionalism in throwing down the gauntlet to the police, who picked it up and wielded it with an iron fist. But the three hundred-or-so party-goers weren't about to go home empty-handed. As the 'World of Public Order' theme park opened once again on the Bristol streets the old bill struggled to retain control, while party-goers dashed past cordons, outmanoeuvring officers on horses or with dogs, alternately to seize control of two major roundabouts. There were 66 nickings during a day in which the cheery throng danced two main roads and a Shell garage into closure, leaving the thin blue line just a pale smudge all over the disgruntled pavement.
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