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# Sunny on the police action
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/sunny-on-the-police-action/
- Published: 2009-04-02T14:04:40.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:42:53.000Z
- Author: Anthony Barnett
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:49

Anthony Barnett (London, [OK](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom)): There is good coverage of the G20 protests on Liberal Conspiracy and Guy will be writing here about what it was like to be penned in (if they need a picture of him they could always read the Times). [An angry Sunny](http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2009/04/02/i-still-blame-police-brutality/?ref=opendemocracy.net) says:

*We can argue endlessly whether the G20 protests had a point. People can even* [*sneer*](http://charlottegore.com/2009/04/01/theyre-anti-capitalist-protestors.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) *at the message. That is to be expected. But this is about the fact that our basic right to stage a peaceful protest is being eroded. They will just detain you for hours on end, without a toilet to go to, and then arrest you or* [*beat you*](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/01/article-1166349-04390431000005DC-345%5F468x286.jpg?ref=opendemocracy.net) *if you choose to complain. And then they’ll take down your details. Is this the sort of democracy we want to live in?*