RM2F3F7YM–London, UK. 16th Mar, 2021. Small protests against the The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill outside the House of Commons Credit: Ian Davidson/Alamy Live News
RM2FN312W–Kill The Bill Protest. Thousands of protesters gather in Hyde Park to demonstrate against a proposed ‘anti-protest’ policing crime bill. London, UK
RM2HFD324–LONDON, UK 15th January 2022. Kill The Bill protest in London this week as the House of Lords will hear the final reading of the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill
RM2F9CPBE–London, UK 17th April 2021. A second weekend of Kill the Bill protests takes place, marching from Wellington Arch to Parliament Square, via Downing Street for a sit down protest and eight minutes silence Credit: Denise Laura Baker/Alamy Live News
RF2K1M36E–Kill the Bill No more Police Powers sticker - Glasgow, Scotland, UK
RM2F3707H–London, UK. 15th Mar, 2021. The protest leaves Parliament Square and heads on to Westminster bridge and then to New Scotland Yard. Protests in central London after the police cleared the vigil at the Clapham Common Bandstand for Sarah Everard. They coincide with the debate in Parlaiment on a new bill which many believe will heavily restrict protests but do little for female victims of crime. Credit: Guy Bell/Alamy Live News
RM2B6MP4A–Edinburgh, UK. 11th Mar, 2020. Pictured: Humza Yousaf MSP - Cabinet Minister for Justice, Scottish National Party (SNP). Scenes from inside the Scottish Parliament. Credit: Colin Fisher/Alamy Live News
RMRN01JX–A Metropolitan Policeman of 1829, called a 'Peeler'. Upon Sir Robert Peel being appointed as Home Secretary in 1822, he established a committee, and acted upon its findings. Peel Believed that the way to standardise the police was to make it an official paid profession and to make it answerable to the public. Peel put a bill before Parliament, which passed as the Metropolitan Police Act of 1829, placing the policing arrangements for the capital directly under the control of Sir Robert Peel.
RM2HFKGFD–Victoria Avenue, Southend on Sea, Essex, UK. 17th Jan, 2022. A protest is taking place outside the Court House in Southend against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill on the day that it is to be voted on in the House of Lords. Protesters, including members of Extinction Rebellion, are concerned that the Bill could be used by the government to restrict the right to protest
RM2HG2WJ8–London, UK, 17th Jan, 2022. Kill the Bill protesters gather opposite the House of Lords as peers vote on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (PCSC Bill), that opponents say will severely curtail protest freedoms by restricting where and when demonstrations may take place. Credit: Eleventh Hour Photography/Alamy Live News
RM2HB87D8–Participants gather during a ‘Kill the Bill’ protest against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in Trafalgar Square in London.
RM2F4DMYH–A protester carries a placard: 'Less Cops, More Co-ops'. On March 20, 2021, some 2,000 demonstrators gathered in central Manchester, England, United Kingdom, as three separate demonstrations merged at 4.30pm. They were protesting about the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, lobbying for more initiatives to protect the safety of women and demonstrating against the Covid 19 related lockdown measures. This follows the recent murder in London of Sarah Everard.
RM2HFCNRW–Anti government protestors in Manchester City centre, including Kill the Bill protesters. Protests are taking place across the country on Saturday 15th of January 2022 ahead of votes on anti protest measures in the House of Lords next week. Marches are being be held in London, Bristol, Coventry, Newcastle, Liverpool, Sheffield, Plymouth - with protesters urging peers to vote against amendments to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill when it returns to the house on Monday. Some of those measures would allow police to crack down on protests which cause “serious annoyance”, and to give t
RF2G8RT5K–Bath, UK. 27th March 2021. Approximately 200 mostly young protesters took to the streets of historic Bath in North Somerset to demonstrate against the police & crime bill. The group of demonstrators initially gathered at Bath Abbey before marching through the streets of the city centre shouting “kill the bill” and “who's streets, our streets”. A small number of police accompanied the march which went ahead peacefully and without incident.
RM2FN5NKT–Protest placard held above a crowd at 'Kill the Bill' protest against new policing bill, London, 1 May 2021
RM2F76BNF–People take part in a 'Kill The Bill' protest in Bristol against The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.
RMPTH9X7–Merseyside Police constable Barry Blackmore carries out a Stop and Search in the Bootle area of Liverpool
RM2FKEYDD–Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK. 1st May 2021. Protesters gather to demand Eastbourne's Conservative MP Caroline Ansell vote against the controversial “Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill” which is due to receive its third reading in Parliament bringing it into law. The protest, one of many across the country on this traditional May Day has representatives from Challenge Racism, Extinction Rebellion and a number of other local groups then marched from Hyde Gardens to the Wish Tower lawn on the seafront where they were addressed by a number of speakers: Credit Newspics UK South/Alamy live News
RM2G6E4Y7–London, United Kingdom. 5th July 2021. Kill The Bill demonstrators gathered in Parliament Square in protest against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which many say would give police more powers over protests in the UK.
RM2F3F7YW–London, UK. 16th Mar, 2021. Small protests against the The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill outside the House of Commons Credit: Ian Davidson/Alamy Live News
RM2FN31W6–Kill The Bill Protest. Thousands of protesters gather in Hyde Park to demonstrate against a proposed ‘anti-protest’ policing crime bill. London, UK
RM2HFCNCX–LONDON, UK 15th January 2022. Kill The Bill protest in London this week as the House of Lords will hear the final reading of the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill
RM2F9CP9M–London, UK 17th April 2021. A second weekend of Kill the Bill protests takes place, marching from Wellington Arch to Parliament Square, via Downing Street for a sit down protest and eight minutes silence Credit: Denise Laura Baker/Alamy Live News
RM2H9WKDT–London, UK. 08th Dec, 2021. Protesters gather outside the Houses of Parliament during the demonstration. Demonstrators gathered at the House of Lords to add pressure to the Lords third reading and vote on the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. Credit: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News
RM2F3703B–London, UK. 15th Mar, 2021. The protest leaves Parliament Square and heads on to Westminster bridge and then to New Scotland Yard. Protests in central London after the police cleared the vigil at the Clapham Common Bandstand for Sarah Everard. They coincide with the debate in Parlaiment on a new bill which many believe will heavily restrict protests but do little for female victims of crime. Credit: Guy Bell/Alamy Live News
RM2B6MP48–Edinburgh, UK. 11th Mar, 2020. Pictured: Humza Yousaf MSP - Cabinet Minister for Justice, Scottish National Party (SNP). Scenes from inside the Scottish Parliament. Credit: Colin Fisher/Alamy Live News
RM2HHH2KY–Protesters gather holding placards against the Conservative plans for the new Policing Bill at the Kill the Bill protest on 15th January 2022 in London, United Kingdom. Demonstrations have been held all over the UK against the The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, whose legislation, which covers a broad range of issues, would give police more powers in controlling non-violent or static protests and imposing a set of new rules for police to deploy. Protesters see the bill as a disproportionate controls on freedom of expression and their right to protest peacefully. The human rights cha
RM2HFKGDN–Victoria Avenue, Southend on Sea, Essex, UK. 17th Jan, 2022. A protest is taking place outside the Court House in Southend against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill on the day that it is to be voted on in the House of Lords. Protesters, including members of Extinction Rebellion, are concerned that the Bill could be used by the government to restrict the right to protest
RM2H9WM82–London, UK, 8th Dec, 2021, 'Kill the Bill' protesters gathered with placards in Westminster as the third reading of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (PCSC) got underway in the House of Lords. The new legislation, if passed, will grant police additional powers to crack-down on protest by allowing stop-and-search, data sharing of activists details and the breaking-up of demonstrations deemed as causing 'serious annoyance'. Campaigners say the bill will also criminalise the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities way of life. Credit: Eleventh Hour Photography/Alamy Live News
RM2HB87GE–Participants gather during a ‘Kill the Bill’ protest against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in Trafalgar Square in London.
RM2F4DNX9–On March 20, 2021, some 2,000 demonstrators gathered in central Manchester, England, United Kingdom, as three separate demonstrations merged at 4.30pm. They were protesting about the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, lobbying for more initiatives to protect the safety of women and demonstrating against the Covid 19 related lockdown measures. This follows the recent murder in London of Sarah Everard.
RM2HFCNRG–Anti government protestors in Manchester City centre, including Kill the Bill protesters. Protests are taking place across the country on Saturday 15th of January 2022 ahead of votes on anti protest measures in the House of Lords next week. Marches are being be held in London, Bristol, Coventry, Newcastle, Liverpool, Sheffield, Plymouth - with protesters urging peers to vote against amendments to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill when it returns to the house on Monday. Some of those measures would allow police to crack down on protests which cause “serious annoyance”, and to give t
RF2G8RTKP–Bath, UK. 27th March 2021. Approximately 200 mostly young protesters took to the streets of historic Bath in North Somerset to demonstrate against the police & crime bill. The group of demonstrators initially gathered at Bath Abbey before marching through the streets of the city centre shouting “kill the bill” and “who's streets, our streets”. A small number of police accompanied the march which went ahead peacefully and without incident.
RM2G7CJG5–Headshot portrait of protester in face mask at a 'Kill the Bill' protest against new policing bill, Parliament Square, London, 5 July 2021
RM2F76BGB–People take part in a 'Kill The Bill' protest in Bristol against The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.
RMPTH9W9–Merseyside Police officers carry out a Stop and Search in the Bootle area of Liverpool
RM2FKEYCJ–Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK. 1st May 2021. Protesters gather to demand Eastbourne's Conservative MP Caroline Ansell vote against the controversial “Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill” which is due to receive its third reading in Parliament bringing it into law. The protest, one of many across the country on this traditional May Day has representatives from Challenge Racism, Extinction Rebellion and a number of other local groups then marched from Hyde Gardens to the Wish Tower lawn on the seafront where they were addressed by a number of speakers: Credit Newspics UK South/Alamy live News
RM2DBKGEY–Kentish Town Police Station in Holmes Road, Kentish Town, London, UK
RM2F3F7YR–London, UK. 16th Mar, 2021. Small protests against the The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill outside the House of Commons Credit: Ian Davidson/Alamy Live News
RM2FN30JK–Kill The Bill Protest. Thousands of protesters gather in Hyde Park to demonstrate against a proposed ‘anti-protest’ policing crime bill. London, UK
RM2HFD3E0–LONDON, UK 15th January 2022. Kill The Bill protest in London this week as the House of Lords will hear the final reading of the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill
RM2F9CP8T–London, UK 17th April 2021. A second weekend of Kill the Bill protests takes place, marching from Wellington Arch to Parliament Square, via Downing Street for a sit down protest and eight minutes silence Credit: Denise Laura Baker/Alamy Live News
RM2H9WKDG–London, UK. 08th Dec, 2021. Protesters gather outside the Houses of Parliament during the demonstration. Demonstrators gathered at the House of Lords to add pressure to the Lords third reading and vote on the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. Credit: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News
RM2F3703E–London, UK. 15th Mar, 2021. The protest leaves Parliament Square and heads on to Westminster bridge and then to New Scotland Yard. Protests in central London after the police cleared the vigil at the Clapham Common Bandstand for Sarah Everard. They coincide with the debate in Parlaiment on a new bill which many believe will heavily restrict protests but do little for female victims of crime. Credit: Guy Bell/Alamy Live News
RM2B6MP4D–Edinburgh, UK. 11th Mar, 2020. Pictured: Humza Yousaf MSP - Cabinet Minister for Justice, Scottish National Party (SNP). Scenes from inside the Scottish Parliament. Credit: Colin Fisher/Alamy Live News
RM2HHH2M6–Protesters gather holding placards against the Conservative plans for the new Policing Bill at the Kill the Bill protest on 15th January 2022 in London, United Kingdom. Demonstrations have been held all over the UK against the The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, whose legislation, which covers a broad range of issues, would give police more powers in controlling non-violent or static protests and imposing a set of new rules for police to deploy. Protesters see the bill as a disproportionate controls on freedom of expression and their right to protest peacefully. The human rights cha
RM2HFKGBF–Victoria Avenue, Southend on Sea, Essex, UK. 17th Jan, 2022. A protest is taking place outside the Court House in Southend against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill on the day that it is to be voted on in the House of Lords. Protesters, including members of Extinction Rebellion, are concerned that the Bill could be used by the government to restrict the right to protest
RM2H9WM7X–London, UK, 8th Dec, 2021, 'Kill the Bill' protesters, one playing a didgeridoo and others, drums, gathered in Westminster as the third reading of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (PCSC) got underway in the House of Lords. The new legislation, if passed, will grant police additional powers to crack-down on protest by allowing stop-and-search, data sharing of activists details and the breaking-up of demonstrations deemed as causing 'serious annoyance'. Credit: Eleventh Hour Photography/Alamy Live News
RM2HB87DD–Participants gather during a ‘Kill the Bill’ protest against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in Trafalgar Square in London.
RM2F4DMEF–Protesters carry placards. On March 20, 2021, some 2,000 demonstrators gathered in central Manchester, England, United Kingdom, as three separate demonstrations merged at 4.30pm. They were protesting about the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, lobbying for more initiatives to protect the safety of women and demonstrating against the Covid 19 related lockdown measures. This follows the recent murder in London of Sarah Everard.
RM2HFCNPJ–Anti government protestors in Manchester City centre, including Kill the Bill protesters. Protests are taking place across the country on Saturday 15th of January 2022 ahead of votes on anti protest measures in the House of Lords next week. Marches are being be held in London, Bristol, Coventry, Newcastle, Liverpool, Sheffield, Plymouth - with protesters urging peers to vote against amendments to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill when it returns to the house on Monday. Some of those measures would allow police to crack down on protests which cause “serious annoyance”, and to give t
RF2G8RRXG–Bath, UK. 27th March 2021. Approximately 200 mostly young protesters took to the streets of historic Bath in North Somerset to demonstrate against the police & crime bill. The group of demonstrators initially gathered at Bath Abbey before marching through the streets of the city centre shouting “kill the bill” and “who's streets, our streets”. A small number of police accompanied the march which went ahead peacefully and without incident.
RM2FN5R8C–'Kill the Bill' protest against new policing bill, London, 1 May 2021
RM2F76B6F–People take part in a 'Kill The Bill' protest in Bristol against The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.
RMPTXMR5–Superintendent Matt Boyle looks out of a patrol van window as Merseyside Police officers carry out a Stop and Search operation in Bootle, Liverpool
RM2FKEYEW–Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK. 1st May 2021. Protesters gather to demand Eastbourne's Conservative MP Caroline Ansell vote against the controversial “Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill” which is due to receive its third reading in Parliament bringing it into law. The protest, one of many across the country on this traditional May Day has representatives from Challenge Racism, Extinction Rebellion and a number of other local groups then marched from Hyde Gardens to the Wish Tower lawn on the seafront where they were addressed by a number of speakers: Credit Newspics UK South/Alamy live News
RM2HG0PYB–London, UK 17th January 2022. Kill The Bill demonstrators gathered outside the House of Lords in protest against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which will severely restrict protests in the UK. Credit: Vuk Valcic / Alamy Live News
RM2F3F7YE–London, UK. 16th Mar, 2021. Small protests against the The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill outside the House of Commons Credit: Ian Davidson/Alamy Live News
RM2FN3107–Kill The Bill Protest. Thousands of protesters gather in Hyde Park to demonstrate against a proposed ‘anti-protest’ policing crime bill. London, UK
RM2HFD357–LONDON, UK 15th January 2022. Kill The Bill protest in London this week as the House of Lords will hear the final reading of the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill
RM2F9CPC7–London, UK 17th April 2021. A second weekend of Kill the Bill protests takes place, marching from Wellington Arch to Parliament Square, via Downing Street for a sit down protest and eight minutes silence Credit: Denise Laura Baker/Alamy Live News
RM2H9WKDP–London, UK. 08th Dec, 2021. A protester holds a placard during the demonstration. Demonstrators gathered at the House of Lords to add pressure to the Lords third reading and vote on the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. Credit: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News
RM2F3703K–London, UK. 15th Mar, 2021. The protest leaves Parliament Square and heads on to Westminster bridge and then to New Scotland Yard. Protests in central London after the police cleared the vigil at the Clapham Common Bandstand for Sarah Everard. They coincide with the debate in Parlaiment on a new bill which many believe will heavily restrict protests but do little for female victims of crime. Credit: Guy Bell/Alamy Live News
RM2B6MP54–Edinburgh, UK. 11th Mar, 2020. Pictured: Humza Yousaf MSP - Cabinet Minister for Justice, Scottish National Party (SNP). Scenes from inside the Scottish Parliament. Credit: Colin Fisher/Alamy Live News
RM2HHH2M5–Protesters gather holding placards against the Conservative plans for the new Policing Bill at the Kill the Bill protest on 15th January 2022 in London, United Kingdom. Demonstrations have been held all over the UK against the The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, whose legislation, which covers a broad range of issues, would give police more powers in controlling non-violent or static protests and imposing a set of new rules for police to deploy. Protesters see the bill as a disproportionate controls on freedom of expression and their right to protest peacefully. The human rights cha
RM2HFKGCC–Victoria Avenue, Southend on Sea, Essex, UK. 17th Jan, 2022. A protest is taking place outside the Court House in Southend against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill on the day that it is to be voted on in the House of Lords. Protesters, including members of Extinction Rebellion, are concerned that the Bill could be used by the government to restrict the right to protest
RM2H9WM7K–London, UK, 8th Dec, 2021, A person holds up a placard at the 'Kill the Bill' protest in Westminster as the third reading of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (PCSC) was underway in the House of Lords. The new legislation, if passed, will grant police additional powers to crack-down on protest by allowing stop-and-search, data sharing of activists details and the breaking-up of demonstrations deemed as causing 'serious annoyance'. Credit: Eleventh Hour Photography/Alamy Live News
RM2HB87CM–Participants gather during a ‘Kill the Bill’ protest against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in Trafalgar Square in London.
RM2F4DNPX–Protesters carry placards. On March 20, 2021, some 2,000 demonstrators gathered in central Manchester, England, United Kingdom, as three separate demonstrations merged at 4.30pm. They were protesting about the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, lobbying for more initiatives to protect the safety of women and demonstrating against the Covid 19 related lockdown measures. This follows the recent murder in London of Sarah Everard.
RM2HFCNPA–Anti government protestors in Manchester City centre, including Kill the Bill protesters. Protests are taking place across the country on Saturday 15th of January 2022 ahead of votes on anti protest measures in the House of Lords next week. Marches are being be held in London, Bristol, Coventry, Newcastle, Liverpool, Sheffield, Plymouth - with protesters urging peers to vote against amendments to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill when it returns to the house on Monday. Some of those measures would allow police to crack down on protests which cause “serious annoyance”, and to give t
RF2G8RT4P–Bath, UK. 27th March 2021. Approximately 200 mostly young protesters took to the streets of historic Bath in North Somerset to demonstrate against the police & crime bill. The group of demonstrators initially gathered at Bath Abbey before marching through the streets of the city centre shouting “kill the bill” and “who's streets, our streets”. A small number of police accompanied the march which went ahead peacefully and without incident.
RM2FN5NB0–Protester with placard at 'Kill the Bill' protest against new policing bill, London, 1 May 2021
RM2F76BWK–People take part in a 'Kill The Bill' protest in Bristol against The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.
RMPTWY83–Merseyside Police officers carry out a Stop and Search in the Bootle area of Liverpool
RM2FKEY8K–Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK. 1st May 2021. Protesters gather to demand Eastbourne's Conservative MP Caroline Ansell vote against the controversial “Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill” which is due to receive its third reading in Parliament bringing it into law. The protest, one of many across the country on this traditional May Day has representatives from Challenge Racism, Extinction Rebellion and a number of other local groups then marched from Hyde Gardens to the Wish Tower lawn on the seafront where they were addressed by a number of speakers: Credit Newspics UK South/Alamy live News
RM2HFDDXG–London, UK 15th January 2022. Kill The Bill protesters in Parliament Square. Thousands of people marched through central London in protest against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which will make many types of protest illegal. Credit: Vuk Valcic / Alamy Live News
RM2F3F7YX–London, UK. 16th Mar, 2021. Small protests against the The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill outside the House of Commons Credit: Ian Davidson/Alamy Live News
RM2FN30GT–Kill The Bill Protest. Thousands of protesters gather in Hyde Park to demonstrate against a proposed ‘anti-protest’ policing crime bill. London, UK
RM2HFD350–LONDON, UK 15th January 2022. Kill The Bill protest in London this week as the House of Lords will hear the final reading of the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill
RM2F9CP96–London, UK 17th April 2021. A second weekend of Kill the Bill protests takes place, marching from Wellington Arch to Parliament Square, via Downing Street for a sit down protest and eight minutes silence Credit: Denise Laura Baker/Alamy Live News
RM2H9WKDJ–London, UK. 08th Dec, 2021. A protestor holds a Kill the Bill flag during the demonstration. Demonstrators gathered at the House of Lords to add pressure to the Lords third reading and vote on the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. Credit: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News
RM2F37036–London, UK. 15th Mar, 2021. The protest leaves Parliament Square and heads on to Westminster bridge and then to New Scotland Yard. Protests in central London after the police cleared the vigil at the Clapham Common Bandstand for Sarah Everard. They coincide with the debate in Parlaiment on a new bill which many believe will heavily restrict protests but do little for female victims of crime. Credit: Guy Bell/Alamy Live News
RM2B6MP8K–Edinburgh, UK. 11th Mar, 2020. Pictured: Humza Yousaf MSP - Cabinet Minister for Justice, Scottish National Party (SNP). Scenes from inside the Scottish Parliament. Credit: Colin Fisher/Alamy Live News
RM2HHH2J4–Protesters gather holding placards against the Conservative plans for the new Policing Bill at the Kill the Bill protest on 15th January 2022 in London, United Kingdom. Demonstrations have been held all over the UK against the The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, whose legislation, which covers a broad range of issues, would give police more powers in controlling non-violent or static protests and imposing a set of new rules for police to deploy. Protesters see the bill as a disproportionate controls on freedom of expression and their right to protest peacefully. The human rights cha
RM2HFKGF1–Victoria Avenue, Southend on Sea, Essex, UK. 17th Jan, 2022. A protest is taking place outside the Court House in Southend against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill on the day that it is to be voted on in the House of Lords. Protesters, including members of Extinction Rebellion, are concerned that the Bill could be used by the government to restrict the right to protest
RM2H9WMB5–London, UK, 8th Dec, 2021, 'Kill the Bill' protesters gathered in Westminster as the third reading of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (PCSC) got underway in the House of Lords. The new legislation, if passed, will grant police additional powers to crack-down on protest by allowing stop-and-search, data sharing of activists details and the breaking-up of demonstrations deemed as causing 'serious annoyance'. Campaigners say the bill will also criminalise the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities way of life. Credit: Eleventh Hour Photography/Alamy Live News
RM2HB87GP–Participants gather during a ‘Kill the Bill’ protest against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in Trafalgar Square in London.
RM2F4DNGJ–Protesters carry placards. On March 20, 2021, some 2,000 demonstrators gathered in central Manchester, England, United Kingdom, as three separate demonstrations merged at 4.30pm. They were protesting about the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, lobbying for more initiatives to protect the safety of women and demonstrating against the Covid 19 related lockdown measures. This follows the recent murder in London of Sarah Everard.
RM2HFCNWG–ANTI government protestors in Manchester City centre, including Kill the Bill protesters. Protests are taking place across the country on Saturday 15th of January 2022 ahead of votes on anti protest measures in the House of Lords next week. Marches are being be held in London, Bristol, Coventry, Newcastle, Liverpool, Sheffield, Plymouth - with protesters urging peers to vote against amendments to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill when it returns to the house on Monday. Some of those measures would allow police to crack down on protests which cause “serious annoyance”, and to give t
RF2G8RT1C–Bath, UK. 27th March 2021. Approximately 200 mostly young protesters took to the streets of historic Bath in North Somerset to demonstrate against the police & crime bill. The group of demonstrators initially gathered at Bath Abbey before marching through the streets of the city centre shouting “kill the bill” and “who's streets, our streets”. A small number of police accompanied the march which went ahead peacefully and without incident.
RM2FN5NK7–Female protester with placard at 'Kill the Bill' protest against new policing bill, London, 1 May 2021
RM2F76BK4–People take part in a 'Kill The Bill' protest in Bristol against The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.
RMPTXMR3–Merseyside Police officers carry out a Stop and Search in the Bootle area of Liverpool
RM2FKEY93–Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK. 1st May 2021. Protesters gather to demand Eastbourne's Conservative MP Caroline Ansell vote against the controversial “Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill” which is due to receive its third reading in Parliament bringing it into law. The protest, one of many across the country on this traditional May Day has representatives from Challenge Racism, Extinction Rebellion and a number of other local groups then marched from Hyde Gardens to the Wish Tower lawn on the seafront where they were addressed by a number of speakers: Credit Newspics UK South/Alamy live News
RM2HFDC2K–LONDON, UK Jan 15th. Kill The Bill protest in London this week as the House of Lords will hear the final reading of the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill on Saturday 15th January 2022. (Credit: Lucy North | MI News) Credit: MI News & Sport /Alamy Live News
RM2F3F7YG–London, UK. 16th Mar, 2021. Small protests against the The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill outside the House of Commons Credit: Ian Davidson/Alamy Live News
RM2FN322X–Kill The Bill Protest. Thousands of protesters gather in Hyde Park to demonstrate against a proposed ‘anti-protest’ policing crime bill. London, UK
RM2HFD38F–LONDON, UK 15th January 2022. Kill The Bill protest in London this week as the House of Lords will hear the final reading of the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill