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Armed PSNI riot police attempting to enforce a Parades Commission ban drag away an injured officer in north Belfast, Ireland.

If the police don’t mention which side did it…it was the Unionist colonisers.

#OTD in 1922 – The newly created Royal Ulster Constabulary took over the policing of Northern Ireland.

Following the partition of Ireland, it was decided to disband the RIC as an All-Ireland police force. In southern Ireland a new police force, the Civic Guard later Garda Siochana was formed, while in Northern Ireland the Royal Ulster Constabulary was established on 1 June 1922 as the police force for Northern Ireland. The RUC carried much over from the former force with a strong nucleus of former…

This is so important.

Black Lives Matter protestors and organised were continually harassed by the police, both in the run up to the protests and on the actual day.

Nine days in Northern Ireland

By Zach Gevelinger

On July 6, 2013, while on vacation in Belfast, in the northern six counties of British-occupied Ireland, I visited a female political prisoner for her birthday and wound up arrested under Section 41(b) of the 2000 UK Terrorism Act, not knowing when or if I’d ever get out.

The prisoner was held in Hydebank jail on suspicion of trying to assassinate two police officers in May. Though we were allotted two hours to visit, the administration stopped the meeting short and escorted me to the visitors area. There they arrested me.

Armed PSNI riot police attempting to enforce a Parades Commission ban clash with Loyalist protestors in north Belfast, Ireland.

Armed PSNI riot police attempting to enforce a Parades Commission ban clash with Loyalists in north Belfast, Ireland.