{"id":287,"date":"2008-06-08T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2008-06-08T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T11:18:00","slug":"strawberry-fair-cambridge-police-harassment-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/strawberry-fair-cambridge-police-harassment-galore\/","title":{"rendered":"Strawberry Fair, Cambridge. Police harassment galore."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Transport police at Cambridge Station were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/cambridge\/strawberry-fair.html\">heavy handed<\/a> last year, but this year they managed to add even more layers of harassment for people coming to town for the annual free festival.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/festivals\/images\/strawberry-fair-01.jpg\" alt=\"Strawberry Fair, Cambridge. Police harassment galore.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Arriving passengers were herded through a long, slow moving cattle run of zig-zag fencing, and then past a sniffer dog. Some were taken out for body searches.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/festivals\/images\/strawberry-fair-02.jpg\" alt=\"Strawberry Fair, Cambridge. Police harassment galore.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The BTP operation at the station was <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">completely<\/span> out of scale, with something like 50 officers &#8211; a mix of regulars and PCSOs &#8211;  backed by dogs, screening pens, fences, operations trucks and specially erected search tents.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/festivals\/images\/strawberry-fair-03.jpg\" alt=\"Strawberry Fair, Cambridge. Police harassment galore.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a ludicrously over-the-top operation &#8211; even tourists visiting for the day were subjected to the same treatment. It felt like we&#8217;d arrived at a police state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Transport police at Cambridge Station were heavy handed last year, but this year they managed to add even more layers of harassment for people coming to town for &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[140,143],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","category-stuff","tag-cambridge","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/strawberry-fair-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-4D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}