London Metropolitan Police admits role in blacklisting construction workers

Re:London Metropolitan Police admits role in blacklisting co... by baud147258 on Friday March 23, 2018 @12:02PM (#16659433)

> That's the Mark Jenner who also spent years having a relationship with the environmental activists he was spying on.

It reminds me of a story about, after the 2015 terrorist attacks in France, a police group was created to infiltrate and spy on racists and anti-muslims hate groups. In one occasion, all the members were the cops...

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Re:London Metropolitan Police admits role in blacklisting co... by Joeboy on Friday March 23, 2018 @02:44PM (#16661335)

On a similar note, the UK's longest ever trial[1] was a libel case about a leaflet that was discovered, 16 years later, to have been co-written by an undercover cop. One of the defendents unwittingly had a two year relationship with another undercover cop.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLibel_case

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Re:London Metropolitan Police admits role in blacklisting co... by pjc50 on Friday March 23, 2018 @03:26PM (#16661758)

I missed that detail when it came out! The whole thing was an extraordinary business.

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Re:London Metropolitan Police admits role in blacklisting co... by 77pt77 on Friday March 23, 2018 @01:12PM (#16660323)

>In one occasion, all the members were the cops...

Were those cops also undercover agents or genuine members?

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Re:London Metropolitan Police admits role in blacklisting co... by baud147258 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:45PM (#16692087)

I wasn't clear, all the cops were part of the same police group, working undercover to foil any racist/anti-muslim attack.

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Re:London Metropolitan Police admits role in blacklisting co... by toyg on Friday March 23, 2018 @07:56PM (#16663714)

Well, after it was discovered, of course they would all have been undercover... even if they weren’t before, so to speak.

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