Bristol Kill The Bill Protest: Charly Pitman jailed for three years

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  1. The system working as intended – 3 years of your life taken for what is directly stated as not harming anyone (“striking officers shields and helmets” – that’s what they’re for) and not leaving an area. Should have committed a rape, they’re basically decriminalised now.

    And remember – they’ve changed the law now so you can get the same sentence just for *showing up* to a protest.

    Absolutely love all the serfs and sycophants in here saying “that’s a just sentence” whilst also harbouring the belief that the Tories shouldn’t be charged with 200,000 negligent deaths because their ideology meant they didn’t like “telling people what to do” – if you want to get away with murder just become a Tory.

    Rules for thee but not for me, writ large through the justice system.

    Just wait until they put the next death cultist into Boris’ old job and we see some actual civil unrest – the courts won’t be able to handle it (they can’t handle their current caseload, to be fair).

    This country is a farce.

  2. I’m weirdly equally fine with:

    – A riotous protest
    – Rioters being sentenced as such

    Peaceful protests do fuck all, but on the other end rioters are _obviously_ breaking the law by causing mayhem. Both are seemingly necessary, to me rioting is you saying “I care more about this cause than not being jailed”.

  3. God this posts comment section is a fucking cesspool of people misunderstanding basic ethics. I’m losing hope in this fucking country just reading the shit that’s either pro violence against innocents or just saying ‘it’s the law so it’s bad to break the law’.

  4. Seems pretty harsh, some of the Rotherham rapists got pretty much the same sentence (what a joke that was!).

  5. This sentence is pretty fair considering she probably won’t even serve half of it inside. If you look at the link below, the sentence isn’t that out of line and is toward the more lenient end of sentencing guidelines. The chaos of the 2011 riots was encouraged and sustained by people like her.

    [https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/crown-court/item/riot/](https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/crown-court/item/riot/)

    Don’t engage in a riot unless you are prepared to run the risk of saying bye to a few years of your life.

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