Statement on the Jobstown brick

andrew
Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:13:54 +0000
JobstownNotGuilty, Labour Party, Policing, Water charge, Community, Dublin, Newsroom, News

After weeks of Garda provocation, and just after Garda beat protesters with batons someone finally snapped and threw a single brick back. When a politician as unpopular as Joan Burton uses dozens of riot police to force her way into and out of one of the most deprived communities in the state, what should be expected but angry protest. And when at a moment of unprecedented popular mobilisation those same Garda pull pepper spray & batons for use against water charge resistors what is a single brick bouncing off a car in response.