"Palestine Action activists hit police officer with sledgehammer, court told" - man hits woman with sledgehammer and fractures her spine.

[CassOle]

'Attack happened after armed gang in jumpsuits broke into Bristol defence factory intent on causing damage, jury hears.

Palestine Action activists hit a female police officer with a sledgehammer after bulldozing their way into a defence factory, a court has heard.

The gang, wearing jumpsuits and armed with whips, fireworks, an axe and a paintball gun, allegedly rammed an old prison van through the gate at Elbit Systems UK, Bristol, in August last year.

Woolwich Crown Court heard on Tuesday that Sgt Kate Evans suffered a fracture to her lumbar spine after she was beaten with a sledgehammer while she lay on the ground. Samuel Corner, 23, denies causing grievous bodily harm with intent.'

Continues here https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/18/palestine-action-activists-hit-police-sledgehammer-court/

Oh darling I’d love to tell you but I’m afraid I can’t because the right wing press simply refuse to cover these issues. But if you ask any person of minority ethnic background they will tell you about the horrors they have to face every single day at the hands of racist thugs and you’d be so surprised because you think we are just the beacon of harmony, going by what you see in the news.

Only the Guardian has the fortitude to speak on these issues sadly.

Well firstly they can't describe themselves as Palestine Action otherwise they will get themselves arrested for being part of a proscribed terrorist group and rightly so.

Regarding their position on the sledge hammer attack on the female police officer, I think they either didn't know or knew about it and refused to believe it or simply don't care if police officers get injured in sledge hammer attacks.

So at best they are idiots and at worst they are dangerous idiots.

It’s not unusual for this stuff to happen. Reminds me of the staged attack on a kosher cafe.
www.timesofisrael.com/canadian-police-say-anti-semitic-attack-on-cafe-was-staged/#:~:text=JTA%20%2D%2D%20An%20alleged%20anti%2DSemitic%20attack%20on,owners%20of%20the%20restaurant%2C%20police%20now%20say.

Oh hello, are you still here? I'm surprised you haven't been banned after all your rape denial posts got deleted.

I see you're here once again to cast doubt on acts of violence against women, whether thats rape of Jewish women on 7 October or the attack by sledgehammer on this UK policewoman. Interestingly both were filmed so the evidence that they took place is pretty incontrovertible.

But why? What's your agenda?

Both @BluntPlumHamand @Swiftasthewind are interesting posts.

They are so convinced that they are the "good guys" sympathising with all those people "unfairly arrested "
for supporting Palestine Action and everyone else is wrong and evil.

So that when presented with evidence of a Palestine Action activist hospitalising a police woman by attacking her with a sledgehammer they are then faced with two choices:
a) a realisation that maybe they are on the side of the "bad guys" after all or
b) deny the evidence or excuse it in a conspiracy theory by claiming that it was actually done by a right wing activist disguised as a PA activist in order to discredit PA.

Honestly have a reflection on which one do you think is more likely...

''They were armed with a variety of weapons, including whips, hammers, axes, metal skewers, one of them at least had a paintball gun, smoke grenades, flares and fireworks which once they'd entered they proceeded to light and throw or fire across the car park at Nigel Shaw as he approached them carrying nothing more than his umbrella.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15302839/Palestine-Action-protester-fractured-police-officer-spine-sledgehammer.html

I hope that the PC recovers fully and has plenty of support. Absolutely horrific.

Whips?!?

🤮

''One of them, one of the black team, approached Mr Volante carrying an axe and a whip.
'As he got close to Mr Volante, Mr Shaw ran across and tackled him to the ground, striking him across the back of the legs with his brolly.
'As Mr Shaw tried to detain this particular member of the black team, this masked intruder said to Mr Shore: "We come in peace".
'The group then aggressively drove Shaw and Volante back cracking whips and throwing fireworks, screaming at them to "F**k off" until Volante managed to grab a whip from one of them which he used in self-defence.
'Eventually, the black team turned and left, retreating across the car park, towards the perimeter fence where the hole had earlier been discovered.
'They climbed over the inner fence and disappeared into the undergrowth in the direction of the railway line.
'As a result of this encounter, Nigel Shaw suffered a 4cm laceration to his head and abrasions to his back, shoulders and knees.
'Caps on several of his front teeth, it seems, were also knocked out during the melee.'

'In subsequent footage of the activities that followed, he appears, as you will see, apparently disorientated with blood pouring down his face.
'Following the incident PS Kate Evans was taken by ambulance to Southmead Hospital.
'She was found to have a red mark over the right side of her lower back which later developed into a large bruise.
'An X-ray was taken which showed there was a fracture to her lumber spine.
'It was treated conservatively with pain killers and physiotherapy. However, she suffered constant pain which severely limited her mobility and meant she was unable to return to work for three months.
'Since then she has suffered ongoing pain to her lower back, right hip and leg and has been confined to restricted duties.
'The laceration to Nigel Shaw's head was closed with staples and he received dental treatment to repair the damage to his teeth.'
Jurors were then played footage of the red team driving a prison van 'like a battering ram' into the shutter door of the loading bay.'

Very sad to hear PC continues to suffer pain from her injuries.

Be interesting to see if PA are still going to garner widespread support, going forward.

Given how great some of us are at explaining away those uncomfortable feelings of dissonance- I'd say possible they will still have support.

Back pain is shit. I hope she can make a full recovery.

Yeah right. The guardian is a biased left-wing rag that cant be trusted in anyway shape or form

Ah well as guardian is your preferred source of news, it’s a good thing they’ve covered the subject of this thread

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/18/pro-palestine-activists-used-sledgehammers-in-action-at-israel-linked-firm-uk-court-told

Here you go, Palestine Action definitely claimed them and the attack as their own.

"Within hours of the attack in Filton, Palestine Action released videos and photographs of the action they took at Elbit Systems. Afterwards, a photograph of the first six arrested and charged, calling them the ‘Filton 6’ earlier this week, as a fundraiser was launched to support their defence."

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/three-more-charged-over-ram-9487750

"It is scheduled for 1pm at the Cascade Steps in The Centre in Bristol. “It is vital that we all come out and show solidarity with these brave activists, unjustly charged and remanded,” a spokesperson for Palestine Action said. “We will be collecting donations on the day with all proceeds going towards Palestine Action’s legal fees, in their fight for justice,” she added"

Oh! one of those white saviour types, self appoint protector of 'minority ethnic's'. I wonder if you've asked any of them if they want your sort speaking for them.

Oh wow. I wonder if whoever made that statement is having second thoughts or any remorse now?

My immediate thought. Now we know but the righteous would not believe the government had good cause for proscribing them.

I really really hope that those pensioners who held up the signs saying 'I support Palestine Action' are feeling angry at those who duped them into getting arrested.

Not a pensioner and yea still protested. No-one was duped. PA proscription is a civil overreach, and that's the reason for the protest.

Britain has a long and distinguished reputation for selling Arms to dodgy countries, we are regarded as terrorists in some parts of the world.

Some of the things being built in that factory have been used to blow up babies and children and women, it's a feminist issue that should concern us all. As is the holy mess in Sudan - being bankrolled by our ally the UAE, and Yemin - being supressed by the Saudi's and what about the proxy war being waged in Ukraine?

Anyone who's prepared to stand up and shut down these factories of death are doing us all a favour.

I will be interested to see the whole of the trial - we must remember that sometimes the press do not accurately portray what has actually happened in a trial - remember the BBC headlines for the first tranch of the Sandy Penny tribunal.

The sex of the police involved in this scuffle is secondary to what was happening - she wasn't targeted for being a woman, indeed, she may not have been targeted at all, but involved in an intercept when these people were trying to destroy property at the factory - that produces drones and other intelligent warfare, used in Palestine and now by ICE in America.

This will be on our streets soon. We'll not be able to hold the corporations, politicians or indeed any public services to account, if we continue to proceed in the direction that the authoritarian people in charge, like that human rights lawyer seem to want to take us.

There are laws a that have been broken, these laws are sufficient to charge the people involved with this action and hold them to account. The procription of Palestine Action was a political action, not a security issue, as has been confirmed by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre ... more here https://www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how-palestine-action-was-banned/

I do hope she does recover, though. I don't believe in violence solving anything.

I do hope she does recover, though. I don't believe in violence solving anything.

How generous.

He fractured her fucking spine.

Some of the things being built in that factory have been used to blow up babies and children and women, it's a feminist issue that should concern us all.

Violence against women is a problem, but not if it's just a woman police officer, right?

'scuffle'

He hit her in the back with a sledgehammer. Twice.

she may not have been targeted at all

Apart from the bit where he hit her with a sledgehammer from behind and nearly broke her spine

Yeah, there was that, yeah

Not a pensioner and yea still protested. No-one was duped. PA proscription is a civil overreach, and that's the reason for the protest.

You knew the Palestine Action promoted an action where a member broke a woman's spine with a sledgehammer and then fundraised for their legal fees and you still think it's a good idea to hold up signs in their support and get arrested because you want them to be able to continue operating?

Fucking hell.

Extreme violence in the supposed service of peace. What's the old saying; it's like fucking for virginity?

I'm not apologising for/on behalf of or ecusing that violence, any violence is abhorrent. Including State violence.

Please do read what I wrote again - I'm not promoting, excusing or glorifying violence, against humans.

I don't agree with a lot of what the right promote, but I will still stand for their right to say it.

I don't agree with the stance taken by some of the people in the gender debate - but I would still

I am standing up for the rights of people to protest, though. And not to be locked up on remand for over the legal limit of 6 months - that's turning protesters into political prisoners.

And it doesn't matter how many times you emphasise how violently the policewoman was injured, for shock value - it is shocking - I do not disagree.

And the crimed being committed by the wepons that are produced in our country are as shocking

And it's shocking to me, that we're all not as shocked about everything as we should be.