The working class have always known British police can be authoritarian
Finally they are showing their true colours to the world
When I think of an authoritarian police force, I picture the Civil Protection officers who patrol City 17 - the post-Soviet city from Valve’s seminal Half Life 2.
Every inch of the CPs’ flesh is covered in body armour; their white masks with sky-blue visors showing not a glimmer of humanity and their built-in vocoders distorting their voices to instil fe…