{"id":694,"date":"2003-10-07T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tashuk.wordpress.com\/2003\/10\/07\/694\/"},"modified":"2003-10-07T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-07T09:45:00","slug":"694","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/694","title":{"rendered":"Were weapons planted on this protester?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An anti-capitalist Briton awaiting trial says Greek police planted Molotov cocktails and other weapons on him. Perhaps uniquely, there is video footage of the arrest which supports his case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/3136382.stm\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/3136382.stm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet another solid example of the use of video and photography.<\/p>\n<p>Many folks say, they don&#8217;t want to be photographed at demos and actions etc &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I understand the difficulty. HOWEVER how is it that they then put out appeals for photos, to help defend charges in court !!!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been attacked and injured a number of times at event. If I and others are intimidated by people on &#8216;my own side&#8217;, then it is obvious that the only camera present at a scene, will be those of the police. Surely, we can&#8217;t mean that?<\/p>\n<p>Very much more on all this, on my main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tash.gn.apc.org\/photo_difficult.htm\">http:\/\/tash.gn.apc.org\/photo_difficult.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anti-capitalist Briton awaiting trial says Greek police planted Molotov cocktails and other weapons on him. Perhaps uniquely, there is video footage of the arrest which supports his case. http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/3136382.stm Yet another solid example of the use of video and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/694\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}