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Bristol: Gloucester Road Social Centre evicted by 100 cops and bailiffs Today (10 March) cops in Bristol have violently evicted a squatted social centre, making some occupants homeless all in the name of building more luxury flats on Gloucester Road. The pigs were very much standing on guard for the bailiffs as they tried to clear a building which used to be a Ranstad office that had been empty for years and was serving as homeless accommodation. Three people were arrested even one accused for assaulting a copper as the crowd tried to occupy the main street to cause disruption, a rediculous a...

Politics and law Every citizen fatality in the custody of a government official—like George Floyd’s excruciating death in Minneapolis—deserves a solemn response and ultimate accounting, including both criminal investigation and broader assessment. The fear and fury flowing from recent law-enforcement casualties, however, have been inflamed and manipulated by opportunists to produce something much more sweeping. Hard facts and data about our systems of law and policing are being ignored. Emotional hysteria is increasingly substituted for reasoned problem-solving. There is enormous pressu...

Leave it to CBS’s excellent hit cop drama Blue Bloods to confront anti-police sentiment head-on and depict how it affects not only officers, but their families, as well. Especially their children, as was the case in Friday’s episode, “Spilling Secrets,” as Sean (Andrew Terraciano), son of Officer Danny Reagan (Donnie Wahlberg) who also has many other NYPD officers and officials in his family, finds the vile acronym “ACAB” (which stands for “All Cops Are Bastards”) written on his high school locker. As Sean is walking out of class with his friend Jennifer (Sophia Gennusa), he ...

Leave it to CBS’s excellent hit cop drama Blue Bloods to confront anti-police sentiment head-on

Reviews From the 2020 Another Hole In The Head Film Festival by Peter Wong on December 15, 2020 One of the 2020 Another Hole In The Head Film Festival’s offerings shows why the slogan “All Cops Are Bastards” may be far truer than the average person may be comfortable with.  Amadeo Canonico’s “The Statement” gets at these truths by taking an oral wrecking ball to the wall separating its characters from their awareness of the audien...