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February 28, 2012

Police Dismantle Occupy London, Arrest 20 Activists 
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Police in London have arrested 20 Occupy London activists and dismantled
the Occupy encampment outside St. Paul's cathedral where protesters have
been staying for four months. Police removed 50 tents. Symon Hill of the
Christian group, Ekklesia, accused the police of using brutal force to
dismantle the encampment.

Symon Hill: "Some of us from Christianity Uncut knelt on the floor to
pray and bailiffs had to push past us. And then they charged in to start
pulling down the tents. And it was very quick, it was very brutal,
there's people who've been sleeping in those tents for four months, seen
their homes uprooted. There were people appealing to the bailiffs, there
were people calling out, all the resistance I have seen has been
entirely non-violent."



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