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The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 10h

Here’s my video recapping today at the #spycops inquiry in under five minutes. If you haven’t followed what happened today, this should bring you up to speed (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 14h

Set a reminder for my upcoming #spycops Space! (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 15h

End of day recap of the last section of today’s #spycops hearing (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 16h

John Mitting closes the #spycops hearing for the day (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 16h

Dave Morris asks who is going to take the responsibility and apologise unreservedly for this #spycops scandal? (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 16h

#spycops officer John Dines admits: ‘It is accurate to say that I was ‘by the side’ of Helen Steel and Dave Morris in 1991 and relaying the legal advice [ie from Keir Starmer] back to my ‘bosses in the SDS’ ‘. (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

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The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 16h

Sid Nicholson, the Head of Security and Vice President of McDonald's, was aware of #spycops officer John Dines deployment into London Geenpeace. (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 16h

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The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 16h

The #spycops officer Bob Lambert helped research and write the "What's wrong with McDonalds" leaflet that started the campaign, along with HN5 John Dines he was an enthusiastic part of the campaign. McDonalds employed 7 private spies to infiltrate the campaign ...

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 16h

David Morris recaps McLibel and the longest libel case in British history between @helensteel12 and himself against @McDonalds that was targeted by #spycops from the very start (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 16h

Dave Morris is delivering an opening statement as one of the McLibel 2, he starts by showing solidarity with the other core participants. He quotes the Met Police opening statement that #spycops were dysfunctional (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 16h

Ifeanyi Odogwu has now finished, John Mitting thanks him and calls Dave Morris to give his opening statement #spycops (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 16h

The Lawrence family had done nothing themselves to justify #spycops targeting. They were not engaged in violence, crime, disorder or subversion; the police materials themselves proceed on that footing. (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 16h

#spycops officers helped in formulating the Met Police position on key strategic issues in relation to the Macpherson Inquiry. With records stating that“DI Richard Walton of CO24 receives ad hoc off-the-record briefings from SDS” (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 17h

Unsure why, by my tiktok live didn't record during the afternoon break at the #spycops inquiry, but the facebook live did, so here's that (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 17h

Powertful presentation by Rajiv Menon on behalf of @DuwayneBrooks at #spycops Inquiry on how yet again he's being asked to recount what happened to him while HN81 is allowed to not give evidence. It's just not justice. (@PeterSalmon7)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 17h

According to the #spycops report of 93/94 it was the victims of racist violence and the anti-racists who posed the greater public order threat than the perpetrators of racist violence and the far right. (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 17h

... team. (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 17h

Dwayne Brooks is willing to give oral evidence and assist the inquiry. However, he is not prepared to do so until he has been given full disclosure of all the #spycops reporting about him and has had sufficient time to digest the material and give instructions to his legal ...

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 17h

Dwayne Brooks is incensed that the inquiry has asked him and others to provide witness statements and give oral evidence before seeing all the #spycops reporting about them (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 17h

At least two #spycops officer HN43 Peter Francis and HN81 ‘David Hagan’ were tasked to target Dwayne Brooks by HN86 and HN85 Roger Pierce (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 17h

Rajiv Menon is listing the many achievements of Dwayne Brooks and how he is essentially been a model citizen #spycops (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 17h

Technical Difficulties strike again at the #spycops inquiry, unclear if that was an issue for John Mitting or just us watching on the stream (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 17h

In each of these stories of #spycops targeting, the same question arises, what kind of police force targets grieving families and those seeking justice. (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 17h

Leslie Thomas introduces Mark Metcalf who was involved in the Colin Roach Centre which was targeted by #spycops officer Mark Jenner. Notably Jenner's reporting constantly raises the spectre of violence without it ever occurring. (@tombfowler.bsky.social)