The police aren't fellow workers. They're the people paid by the government to attack workers.
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The police are the people paid to make sure you don't make money outside the channels the wealthy find 'acceptable' and break up unions.
Edit: In response to the hate I'll probably get for agreeing with the OP, let me explain--
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I am not an anarchist. My issue is that police in the US at least are often (though not always,) more concerned with protecting property, or even the appearance of property. Try collecting and recycling aluminum cans in a neighborhood that is undergoing serious gentrification. On one occasion, I had an entire day's worth of cans *literally stolen* by a police officer who wouldn't even tell why or what it was that was unlawful about what I was doing. I had been careful to specifically NOT trespass, collect only from PUBLIC garbage cans, (legal) and to clean up after myself and leave things "cleaner than I found them." My only crime was being an icky poor person on a shiny rich street.
Edit 2: I did not dig through the garbage cans of private residences, only those in public parks and commercial zones. I think it's high time we stopped treating poverty like a crime.
There were members of Socialist Worker at certain protests not long after 8th June:
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In Soviet Britain, Metropolitan Police don't attack you .
PROTIP: The Police Federation: their union .
The police are there to make sure you're not run over by a fellow worker who had too much to drink after work. They're there to help protect workers who testify against the criminals who hurt other workers. They're there to find the workers who go missing because their families and fellow workers couldn't be arsed to care about them.
For as much as they talk about being "for the people", anarchists don't seem to understand the dangers that people brave every day. More proof that anarchism stems more from ignorance and knee-jerk reactionary emotions than any real empathetic connection.
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