Heavy Police Presence at Resumption of Sheffield Street Tree Fellings Protests

Local / Sheffield Feb 24, 2018 - 05:01 AM GMT

After a 4 week break the felling of mostly healthy Sheffield street trees is set to resume on Monday 26th Feb, which is being preceded by a concerted establishment propaganda effort in an attempt at frightening off protestors from attending the sites marked with signs such as Chatsworth Road and Meersbrook Park Road, mayhem on which was the catalyst for the initial suspension of street tree fellings in January as the following video illustrates of a tree protestor being allegedly repeatedly assaulted by SIA security:

The full spectrum of establishment propaganda involves mainstream broadcast local media repeating reports of a 'phantom' broken wrist of an SIA security without providing any details. Whilst the only evidence of violence on the day in question is as the above video shows a protestor being punched at least 5 times, including an upper cut to the head. Maybe that is the origins of the 'phantom' broken wrist reporting?

Continuing with threatening legal correspondence sent to prominent campaigners such as Simon Crump without accompanying evidence that matches the allegations made, and the police issuing a statement warning of taking a heavy handed attitude towards protestors with the statement clearly taking the line of attending sites in support of SIA security personnel in their use of force against protestors.

A message that has been iterated across local media including the BBC's Toby Foster radio show which featured Assistant Chief Constable David Hartley "Our role here is to be really really independent. So when we look at what is the evidence coming from the scene, we make a judgement and we take all legal advice around that, what is reasonable force, there's an injunction in place. SIA trained security, we work with those routinely. As you will well know in the nighttime economy you have SIA trained staff. They have to be fit and proper and they're trained around their role so we look at that and we make an assessment around is what they're doing reasonable, is it reasonable force within the bounds of the injunction"

Sheffield's peaceful tree protestors are definitely going to have it rough starting Monday 26th of Feb as the establishment has decided that the tree protests will be brought to an end through use of force. All this whilst the cities Weston Park Museum celebrates 200 years of protests in Sheffield.

Meanwhile attention is increasingly being focused towards how to hold the Labour controlled city council to account at the May 2018 local elections:

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