Police Skullduggery

There are crazy things that go on which most people know nothing about and believe they just couldn't happen. We are all taught that "our" government is good, that "our" justice system is fair, and that "our" police always protect us.

The following is an article from the Guardian newspaper about police provocateurs, i.e. something that "our" government and "our" police are never supposed to do.

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.

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.

Brake has produced a draft report of his experiences for the human rights committee, having received written statements from people in the crowd.

The following is an example of police provocateurs caught by legitimate protestors and forced to flee behind police lines during a protest in Montebello, Quebec, Canada in 2007. The protest was over the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America". This video shows how police infiltrate the ranks of protestors the provoke violence to justify the resulting police riot. In this case the protestors were able to spot the provocateurs (undercover Quebec police officers) before they provoked the police. Listen towards the end of the following video to hear the protestors worries about police violence.