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+1 to everything velocity boy says. i've experienced CM years ago in london and new york before any hassle; i've also experienced the police violence in new york since their clampdown (see the film, 'still we ride' for more info) and also the "sanitised" version of critical mass as it now occurs in london. to be honest, i actually thought the london cops were pretty reasonable last friday - although still meat heads and out to be the most important person around (saw one officer shouting at a pedestrian for trying to cross the road through the mass; another one shouted at me when i banged lightly on the side of a car who was trying to drive into the mass having not realised - and i was then threatened with "criminal damage" prosecution briefly; finally, saw another cyclist told by one police officer to stay in front of a car, and then was shouted at by another cop further down the line). i'd say that the cops and (political) attitudes and interpretations of anything that might be interpreted as political - even if it's not - are very different on either side of the pond.