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September 2016

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DPAC block bridge over benefit deaths

Westminster Bridge, London. Wed 7 Sep 2016

  
 
DPAC and its supporters block Wesminster Bridge
      
 Placards give details of some who have died from benefit cuts. One woman wears an apron with some of their names. Others hold photographs of them

 Gill Thompson has a poster with details of her diabetic ex-soldier brother David Clapson who starved to death

 

 The details of those died which were obtained from the DWP were heavily 'redacted'.

 Black Triangle banner - 'Disabled People Fighting for Our Future'

 Police start trying to get people to move off the road

 warning them they are committing an offence and may be arrested. I was also threatened with arrest, despite showing my Press card

  One carer who refused to move away from the disabled person he was looking after was arrested and taken to a police van
 
I think all those arrested were later released - arrest being used in an abuse of process to harass protesters 

some protesters refused to move for a long time 

 

but eventually moved 

while others stuck it out on the road for almost two hours 

 

 

 

 

Finally Paula Peters announced the protest was ending and everyone left
 
   

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