RUC - The same old story
It may be a new year but for the RUC it's the same old story;
harassment and beatings in the streets, brutality and torture behind
closed doors.
Dismal failure, another old friend of the hated RUC, has also been
staring them straight in the face from Burntollet to Castlereagh.
A fortnight ago despite a massive show of force (their largest ever
except for their August 1977 mobilisation in defence of their English
Queen) the RUC failed dismally in their attempt to curb and
intimidate the Burntollet Commemoration marchers.
Once again the RUC's indiscipline and violently sectarian sentiments
were openly exposed. For example the Dublin `Sunday Independent'
carried a front page report describing an RUC `Chief Inspector'
viciously kicking a defenceless protester who was being pinned down
on the road by other RUC men.
Phoblacht 20 January 1979
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