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  • 18 hours ago
Dave Howe of Dissent cafe and bar reacts to being raided by the police over posters on his wall.
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00:00I think it's an extraordinary waste of police resources, for starters.
00:05There were three uniformed police here for about two hours.
00:09They were then attended, then two detectives from the major crime unit attended to remove the posters.
00:17I might point out these posters are freely available via the internet and on display around the world.
00:23I was in shock, and quite honestly still am.
00:28I don't really believe that this was an incitement to hatred or anything of that sort.
00:36I think this was just a piece of satire, art as satire has got a long history as a form
00:44of political expression.
00:46It's a worrying sign, isn't it?
00:48I think for the police to be so reactive to what is clearly intended as satire and art speaks more,
01:05I guess, of an authoritarian approach to order than civil-mindedness and good faith.
01:18You
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