Terraformed by Joy White

Author:Joy White
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912248698
Publisher: Watkins Media
Published: 2020-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Some of the tactics adopted by the London police … were those developed and used by the army and the RUC SPG [Royal Ulster Constabulary — Special Patrol Group] in Northern Ireland. The introduction of “snatch squads” and “wedges” in demonstrations, and random stop and searches and roadblocks on the streets were based on the Army’s experience in Ulster.24

I spoke to Winston, a sixty-three-year-old Black man of Caribbean descent and a long-term Newham resident. Winston recalled his encounters with the police generally, and the SPG in particular, in the 1980s as follows:

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