So Sergeant Delroy Smellie of the Metropolitan Police Territorial Support Group, captured on film backhanding then beating with a metal truncheon protester Nicola Fisher at last year’s G20 demonstrations in London has beaten the rap.
We all have District Judge Daphne Wickham to thank for ensuring that this whole mess was tidied up ahead of tomorrow’s one year anniversary of the death at police hands of unarmed bystander Ian Tomlinson.
Posted in Activista, Beaks & Silks, Cops & Crims, G20 Police Witnesses IDed, NewsBurst
Tagged #G20killershavenames, Delroy Smellie, District Judge Daphne Wickham, G20, Ian Tomlinson, Nicky FIsher, Nicola Fisher, PC Simon Harwood, police brutality, police killed Ian Tomlinson, PS Delroy Smellie, Sergeant Smellie, Simon Harwood, Territorial Support Group, TSG, who killed Ian Tomlinson
Tuntematon Sotilas (1985)
Rauni Mollberg’s 1985 colour updating of the Väinö Linna novel about Finland’s Continuation War with the Soviet Union, which proves somewhat more dour than Edvin Laine’s popular 1955 version.
Whilst many of the scenes appear to have been recreated from the earlier film virtually shot-by-shot (for example, the snowy ambush, the closing battle scene), there are some interesting divergences in the characterisation, notably making stalwart citizen-soldier Rokka less of a jester and more world-weary. I’m not sure if it’s better, but it’s definitely worth watching for comparison with its forebear.
Posted in A Week In Film
Tagged Continuation War, Edvin Laine, Finland, Karelia, Rauni Mollberg, Russia, Soviet Union, The Unknown Soldier, Tuntematon Sotilas, USSR, Väinö Linna
With the trial of G20 assault cop Sergeant Smellie nearly over, it would appear prudent to investigate some possible career moves for Delroy the Trotter.
So far the Twitter hashtag #NewCareersForSergeantSmellie has thrown up the following suggestions:
Add your ideas here or on Twitter – together we can help this 6′ 5″, eighteen stone shrinking violet a suitable new position.
[Cheers to @Raxscallion for their input!]
So, Jane Kaczmarek.
Lois the mother in Malcolm In The Middle, the slimline Roseanne; in an earlier life a jobbing harridan-for-hire, as seen here in Ted Kotcheff’s 1983 ‘Nam replay Uncommon Valor, in which she gets to play the wife of jumpy ex-tunnel rat Wilkes (Fred Ward, looking uncommonly like Charles Bronson the tunnel rat in The Great Escape).
Teen sharpshooter Lee Boyd Malvo (Trent Cameron) finds all this wanton killing a bit too much in the effective TV movie DC Sniper: 23 Days Of Fear.
One of the Marines from Generation Kill taking a quick combat zone dump – if you can identify whom you shall earn my sincere gratitude!
Killer clown/child rapist John Wayne Gacy (Mark Holton) takes a tinkle and makes an ill-advised advance in straight-to-video exploitopic Gacy.
Right, so I’ve missed out on all the excitement, but anyhow, here’s the story so far on the campaign to prevent the old Jesters building on Cheltenham Road from getting turned into another Tesco Express…
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I leave the last word to Al Shaw from Redland People/Trym Tales:
“…I am surprised that on the official press release by Avon and Somerset Constabulary announcing the eviction the force find it necessary to assist Tescos in their PR campaign by quoting a Tesco spokesman uncritically in connection with the company’s desire to open the controversial store.
“It’s one thing for the police to enforce the decision of a court (which is part of their job); when they act as a mouthpiece for a huge company which is widely disliked and criticised by people from a range of social and economic backgrounds, it seems to me that the force has stepped over the wrong side of a line and manifested a poitical bias.”
[Edited to add links.]
Posted in Activista, Bristol, Cops & Crims, Elves & Pixies, NewsBurst, Policing Space, Yuppification & All That Jazz
Tagged Avon & Somerset Constabulary, bailiffs, BS2, Cheltenham Road, direct action, gentrification, High Court Enforcement Officers, lock-on, squatters, St. Paul's, Stokes Croft, Tesco, tripod
My gut tells me no one’s going to guess what film this is from – but have a crack at naming it in the comments if you feel lucky!
ETA:
Another win for the house – it’s High Heels And Low Lifes.
Some night elevated shots looking down from the 35th floor of the Nakatomi building at the LAPD tank that Alexander and James have just blown up in Die Hard.
DC blues band The Nighthawks plays Dolores’ bar in the second season of The Wire.
Posted in Minstrel Showings
Tagged Baltimore, Dolores, Maryland, The Nighthawks, The Wire, Washington DC
A nice little black-and-white Paramount intermission screen from Paris Brûle-T-Il?, AKA Is Paris Burning?
Posted in InterTitle
Tagged Is Paris Burning?, Maquis, Paramount, Paris Brûle-T-Il?, Resistance
Posted in Framed Documents
Tagged cracker, Samantha Morton, Ted Whitehead, The Big Crunch
Headline story in the Manchester Evening News reporting on Albie Kinsella’s work in Cracker.
Posted in Framed Documents
Tagged Albie Kinsella, cracker, Hillsborough, Jimmy McGovern, Robert Carlyle
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