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The world is watching us.

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We are responsible people,

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and we'll conduct
ourselves with dignity and discipline.

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You get some dinosaur trade unionists

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that are stopping the very jobs
we want to see.

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Maggie Maggie Maggie!

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Out out out!

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Maggie Maggie Maggie!

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Out out out!

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For more than two months now,

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these women have occupied
the Lee Jeans factory

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to stop it from closing down.

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200 of them taking it in turns
to keep the occupation going.

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We're determined,
we'll just keep fighting on.

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This is the first tractor made
at Caterpillar since the work-in began.

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It's become far more than just a tractor,

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This 'Pink Panther' is now a symbol
of what the workers are trying to achieve.

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It is a special privilege to be a guest
of this great city, Glasgow.

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The people of Glasgow, 6,000 miles away,
declared us to be free.

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We love you all.

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Thank you.

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Pupils at a school in Glasgow
are campaigning

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to support a family
who were turned down for asylum.

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The unarmed Mr Floyd,
who was black, died in Minneapolis

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after being pinned down
by a white police officer.

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In Britain, a London police officer
has been arrested

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for the kidnap, rape and murder
of a young woman.

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In the aftermath
of Sarah Everard's murder,

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shock, grief and anger were shared
at vigils around the country.

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Well, I've lived in that close
for 32 years,

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and you could write a novella
about the couples,

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the families that have come and gone.

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My partner Liv was...

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41 weeks pregnant...
so I was a week past my due date.

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So, you know, the birth pool was inflated,
the plastic sheeting was down.

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And I had a maternity appointment,
so I left the house quite early.

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I decided that I'd spend the day writing.

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Part of our flat looks down
onto Kenmure Street,

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and that's where I work,
I have a wee study there.

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I'm conscious there's some sort
of commotion going on, on the landing.

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I was working at the kitchen table
and I heard some noise...

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Because it was roundabout Eid,

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I thought it was maybe kids playing
outside, in the back garden.

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So I went out and looked...
-It's not the kind of thing

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you expect to see when you open
your curtains in the morning.

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I was quite surprised actually
at how blatant it was.

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The van had 'Immigration Enforcement',
in big letters on the side.

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I messaged some friends
and I tweeted about it as well,

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saying precisely,
'What do you do in this situation?'

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Because I had no idea.

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I opened up the door and I was saying,
'Lakhvir, what's going on?'

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And he was being marched down the stairs
by Home Office officials,

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heads down, don't-talk-to-you or anything.

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And so I just, still in my pyjamas,

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ran out onto the street
to see what was going on.

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I just started sending
messages out to anyone

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that I thought would be up
for coming down.

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Babysitting exchange groups,
reading groups.

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There was like a WhatsApp group
for our building.

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Eid was going to be one of those days
that was going to be really special.

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I guess it would be the same for anyone
celebrating Christmas or Diwali.

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Pandemic, the world, and then,
an opportunity to come together.

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I started getting these text messages

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that there was an immigration van
on Kenmure Street

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and I don't live too far,
just around the corner.

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I don't have anything to do yet.

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All the family are still asleep.

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I can go, I could do this.

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There'll be a situation,
but maybe it'll just be a couple of hours.

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I'll see how it goes.

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What's really going to happen on Eid day?

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I got there within three minutes
of receiving the text message.

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I think one of the things
that have become quite evident

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in recent years,

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is how important it is
to document things yourself.

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And I just started live recording.

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This is Immigration.

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These people are here.

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I think this is part of that new...
Home Office dawn raid thing.

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The Home Office Immigration Enforcement.

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As soon as I woke up,
I looked at my phone

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and I had a text saying,
'Raid on Kenmure Street.'

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'Can people get there now?'

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Jumped out of bed, got dressed,
walked straight to Kenmure Street.

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I didn't really think about
what I was going to do

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when I went out onto the street,
I just knew that I had to do something.

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When I was sitting on the ground
and the police kept turning up

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this is when I was like,
'Oh, God, what have I done?'

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Soon after we arrived, somebody whispered
to me that there's somebody under the van.

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This man just ran underneath
to stop the van.

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If it wasn't for him,

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the van would have left.

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It would have happened so quickly.

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And his actions delayed things.

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It delayed things enough
for people to come round.

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Hey, folks.

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Who's all here as part of the protest?

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Anybody?

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Anyone here protesting?

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I thought it was actually an accident.

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I thought it was an ambulance
and two police cars.

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So I was telling myself not to be nosy
and not to look.

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And just as I was getting on my bike,
I had a little glance

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and then I noticed someone was filming it.

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And I thought, that's odd.

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Why would you film an accident?

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There must be something else happening.

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And then I realised the person filming it
was my colleague and friend...

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Tab.

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Hey, John, it's the Home Office raid,

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the dawn raids.

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I didn't know the guys,

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but their next-door neighbour's
a good friend of mine, Jonathan.

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Hi, Jonathan.
Hi, Jonathan.

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One of the neighbours who's a mutual
friend came up to me

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and said, Tab, this is awful.

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What's going on?

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These are my neighbours.

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They're such good people.

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And it's terrible.

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You couldn't have actually done anything

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that was conceivably as provocative

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as to launch a Home Office eviction
on the day of Eid

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in Scotland's most diverse community.

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So he put me in the picture quickly
about what it was about.

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These two men had been here for ten years.

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They're part of the community

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and they're now in this van.

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So that was enough for me.

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It was just a strange thing,
it was a dystopian sight

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not what you'd expect
in a quiet suburban street.

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I'll take one, thank you.

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I was in my sixth year of high school

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and I was heading to my biology class.

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I was leaving and my mum told me
about what was happening

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on the front doorstep.

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I still brought all of my school stuff

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because in my head, I was like,
I'll still make it to biology on time.

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Police officer: Alright, pal?

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You alright still, down there?

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You got some water?

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You need anything else?

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Give us a shout if you do.

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I've been involved
in demonstrations before

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but being in that kind of epicentre
of things, not really.

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Hi...

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I'm Van Man and this isn't my face
but these are my words.

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Getting under the van was a bit cramped,
I'm not a small guy

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but once I got under there
and I was able to get my hands

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around the axle
and just kind of cling on...

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I don't think anyone would have been able
to drag me out of there if they'd tried.

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Who's under the van?

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My initial thoughts were good, good, good.

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I couldn't see anything
beyond boots stomping around the van.

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I thought they knew I was already
in the van

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because I thought my friend from the
network might have told them, but...

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fair enough, she hadn't.

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So they'd already gotten into the van
with the guys

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and they were sitting ready to drive off
when they were told, or found out,

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I'm not exactly sure.

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I'm glad they did because they could have
put the keys in the ignition, and...

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run in with my head directly in front
of the tyre, I was that close.

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Police officer: Keep going.

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The idea is to delay the van
and delay the removal team

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because if they have to spend another hour
milling around this address,

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that's an hour taken out of their schedule
and you're buying time for other people.

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Okay, uh...

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They tried to tell us that one
of the people in the van

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wanted to be returned
to his country of origin,

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which I don't know whether or not
that's true.

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We want them to have the choices.

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Let the other guy go.

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Getting a bit cold now.

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When people started gathering,
there were friends

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and one gave me a shawl,
one gave me a jacket

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and they're like,
'You just make yourself comfortable, Tab!'

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and I'm like, 'Thank you.'

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People were coming out
of the neighbouring buildings

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to stand around or to give blankets.

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Someone turned up quite quickly
who was a nurse

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and who spoke to the person under the van
about their own safety

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and their well-being under there.

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Van Man: There was an amazing
off-duty nurse

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who appeared and just didn't leave.

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This is not my face,
but these are my words.

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I was a bit worried about this guy.

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He was squashed in
and nobody seemed to know who he was

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or was speaking to him.

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So I wanted to check
that he was all right.

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Do you have any health problems?

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Anything I should know about?

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She was sitting at the back of the van,
by the bumper, checking in on me.

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I had to keep explaining, he needs to keep
warm, he needs to be looked after.

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Can we bring in a water bottle?

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'No, we need to check what's in it.'

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You've just seen this old lady
bringing it out of her house.

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They were very strict.

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Only after a while they sort of would let
me pass some things.

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Let them go!

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As a nurse, we have a duty of care.

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It happens to me quite a bit
in and about the city,

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finding people collapsed in the street.

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I think I have a bit of bad luck
with that.

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Van Man: She would check in with me
every 15-20 minutes.

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Not just to see if I was conscious,

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but also reminding me to move
whatever I could

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to prevent nerve damage
and that kind of stuff.

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So much hinged on the fact that
it had been his decision

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to get underneath the van,
which is not how safety and health work.

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Lots of people do loads of things that put
them at risk

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for different reasons.

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That doesn't mean it should change
how we think about their safety.

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I'd done zero logistics, I was...

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I was just so lucky to have good friends
and good strangers around me.

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I remember when I was in nursing school,

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in the introductory days,

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we're told about our code of conduct.

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And somebody asked, what do I do
if I don't agree with the situation?

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And the teacher said,
you're talking about politics, no nursing.

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We're trying to keep as much of a sterile
space in here as possible.

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The prisoner removal team's going to come
in and try and get them out soon.

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Protestor: Guys are trying to pray there,
guys. It's a mosque. It's Eid.

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Protestor: The prisoner
removal service?

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Cameraperson: People celebrating,
like, and living.

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It was still quite early in the day
when I was making my way

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back to the south side.

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As the road opens up,
you can get quite a clear view

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from a while away,

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and there was a small crowd in the middle
of the road,

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and there was a van sitting there.

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It sort of had the feeling of just people
from the flats

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who'd just come outside.

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I suppose that's exactly what it was.

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And I got a sense,
there's something going on here.

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I'm going to stick about.

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Stop deportation!

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No borders! No nations!

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Stop deportation!

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No borders! No nations!

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Stop deportation!

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I had to put my phone off.

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It's first thing in the morning I put
all this stuff on 'Do not disturb.'

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But then after maybe like two hours,
I was like,

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I'm just going to have a wee look
at social media,

247
00:19:28,458 --> 00:19:30,417
look at the internet,
see what's happening in the world.

248
00:19:30,500 --> 00:19:33,042
And then when I turned my phone on,
I had all these notifications.

249
00:19:33,125 --> 00:19:35,875
Let them go! Let them go!

250
00:19:47,292 --> 00:19:48,458
Let them go!

251
00:19:48,542 --> 00:19:52,375
I couldn't believe this had erupted,
and I'd only left two months previously.

252
00:19:52,417 --> 00:19:54,000
So, I caught a bus

253
00:19:54,667 --> 00:19:56,375
as far up Pollokshaws Road as I could,

254
00:19:56,458 --> 00:19:58,625
and then cut down towards Kenmure Street.

255
00:20:00,667 --> 00:20:02,458
I didn't expect it to take very long.

256
00:20:02,542 --> 00:20:04,583
As I expected,
there wouldn't be a lot of us.

257
00:20:05,208 --> 00:20:07,833
I suppose it was an element
of a token resistance.

258
00:20:17,833 --> 00:20:20,250
It was a gobsmacking scene, let's face it.

259
00:20:20,625 --> 00:20:22,833
It's hard to believe that somebody
was under the van

260
00:20:22,875 --> 00:20:24,708
or that the two men were in the van.

261
00:20:25,250 --> 00:20:27,542
This was somewhere
I'd lived for 30-odd years.

262
00:20:27,833 --> 00:20:31,417
Pollokshields has always been
a fairly racy place.

263
00:20:34,917 --> 00:20:36,792
The majority of people who were there
still at this point

264
00:20:36,833 --> 00:20:38,000
didn't know why they were there.

265
00:20:39,292 --> 00:20:41,208
The Home Office doing
what the Home Office do...

266
00:20:41,292 --> 00:20:42,958
I don't think there was any expectation

267
00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,000
that they were going to change anything.

268
00:20:45,208 --> 00:20:48,750
I think the expectation was that they were
there to be witnesses to something.

269
00:20:58,417 --> 00:21:00,458
It's a tight-knit community,
and it's quite built up

270
00:21:00,500 --> 00:21:02,083
with those big rows of tenements.

271
00:21:02,667 --> 00:21:05,417
Tenements almost form this, like,
natural amphitheatre.

272
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,917
Out of my window,
just turned slightly left,

273
00:21:08,958 --> 00:21:10,542
and it was the back of the van.

274
00:21:11,042 --> 00:21:12,583
Let them go!

275
00:21:12,792 --> 00:21:13,875
These are our neighbours!

276
00:21:13,958 --> 00:21:15,000
Let them go!

277
00:21:16,458 --> 00:21:19,667
That's a powerful thing, to know
that the community is watching.

278
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,333
And so we opened the window,
and we sat out on the ledge

279
00:21:22,375 --> 00:21:24,625
and the Kenmure Street sign is beside it.

280
00:21:24,708 --> 00:21:28,708
And then I filmed it as much as I could
on my smartphone.

281
00:21:32,333 --> 00:21:35,167
We won't leave!
Until the people are free!

282
00:21:35,667 --> 00:21:37,583
We won't leave!

283
00:21:37,625 --> 00:21:40,083
-Who are you guys filming for?
-STV.

284
00:21:40,750 --> 00:21:41,667
STV.

285
00:21:41,750 --> 00:21:42,667
Right, thank you.

286
00:21:42,708 --> 00:21:44,292
Crowd: We won't leave!

287
00:21:46,083 --> 00:21:47,708
We won't leave!

288
00:21:47,750 --> 00:21:49,958
I work at a farm out in Neilston,

289
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,542
but we have a small site
at the side of Bellahouston Park.

290
00:21:53,583 --> 00:21:56,417
So we were working there,
planting up tomato plants.

291
00:21:56,958 --> 00:21:58,750
I got a text through from a friend.

292
00:21:59,125 --> 00:22:01,667
'There's an attempted dawn raid
at Kenmure Street.'

293
00:22:02,667 --> 00:22:03,958
'Come down if you can.'

294
00:22:04,917 --> 00:22:06,875
And then I started to hear the sirens

295
00:22:07,333 --> 00:22:09,208
going down Dumbreck Road.

296
00:22:10,875 --> 00:22:14,542
There was a lot of them, so I'm assuming
that's where they were going.

297
00:22:15,083 --> 00:22:18,167
I was texting back friends,
saying, 'Are you there?'

298
00:22:18,958 --> 00:22:21,792
'There's a lot of police coming.'

299
00:22:28,583 --> 00:22:32,375
I came out of the maternity appointment,
and while I was walking home

300
00:22:32,417 --> 00:22:33,500
my phone kept buzzing.

301
00:22:34,458 --> 00:22:36,708
But also I was walking
through Queen's Park.

302
00:22:37,333 --> 00:22:39,917
It was like a strange feeling,
because it felt like

303
00:22:39,958 --> 00:22:42,958
so many people in the park
were also walking back to my house.

304
00:22:47,500 --> 00:22:49,500
Let them go! Let them go!

305
00:23:27,750 --> 00:23:30,333
God knows how many vans are here now,
police vans.

306
00:23:31,875 --> 00:23:33,000
Just for two men.

308
00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:40,667
I was driving towards the mosque,
and I saw a lot of police presence there.

309
00:23:41,250 --> 00:23:42,250
And I became worried.

310
00:23:42,333 --> 00:23:45,792
I thought, there's something
that's happened, or it's been done.

311
00:23:45,958 --> 00:23:47,375
So I quickly parked up.

312
00:23:47,833 --> 00:23:50,292
I met someone who was coming out,
and I said, 'What's happening?'

313
00:23:50,333 --> 00:23:53,417
And he said, 'I think a couple of people
have been arrested,

314
00:23:53,458 --> 00:23:55,042
and it's got nothing to do
with the mosque.'

315
00:23:55,417 --> 00:23:58,375
Being in that peaceful mode,
coming right outside,

316
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:00,958
boom, right in my face.

317
00:24:01,042 --> 00:24:02,667
Let them go!

318
00:24:02,708 --> 00:24:04,417
What did I just walk out to here?

319
00:24:05,125 --> 00:24:08,333
I mean, it was literally at the doorstep
of the mosque.

320
00:24:09,875 --> 00:24:12,375
We've not seen so many police

321
00:24:12,958 --> 00:24:16,792
in Pollokshields
in such a small area before.

322
00:24:17,375 --> 00:24:18,583
They were everywhere.

323
00:24:18,833 --> 00:24:22,083
There was a rumour
two Muslims will be deported.

324
00:24:22,125 --> 00:24:25,333
So I think that must have angered
some of the attendees

325
00:24:25,375 --> 00:24:26,792
who had come for Eid prayer,

326
00:24:26,833 --> 00:24:28,958
whose cars were blocked, actually.

327
00:24:29,042 --> 00:24:30,042
They couldn't really move.

328
00:24:30,167 --> 00:24:32,875
So without the Eid prayer,
there is no Eid.

329
00:24:32,958 --> 00:24:35,000
You can imagine,
it's very busy in the morning.

330
00:24:35,083 --> 00:24:36,375
Council tax, mate, everything.

331
00:24:36,417 --> 00:24:37,917
All the tax we pay, mate.

332
00:24:39,125 --> 00:24:40,167
You don't need to lie to anybody.

333
00:24:40,292 --> 00:24:41,625
It's all on social media now.

334
00:24:42,125 --> 00:24:44,083
People are live here on Facebook.

335
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:46,333
Never abuse your power.

336
00:24:47,042 --> 00:24:49,042
-This is live.
-Disgusting.

337
00:24:49,083 --> 00:24:51,583
You go into the mosque, you pray,
you come out.

338
00:24:51,625 --> 00:24:54,667
You just want to go home and start eating
and be normal again.

339
00:24:54,792 --> 00:24:57,167
But obviously it wasn't time to be normal
at all.

340
00:24:57,250 --> 00:24:58,833
Let them go!

341
00:24:58,917 --> 00:24:59,875
I phoned to my mum.

342
00:24:59,917 --> 00:25:02,917
I said, 'Mum, you better just put my food
in the fridge,

343
00:25:03,042 --> 00:25:05,167
because I'm not coming home anytime soon.'

344
00:25:05,250 --> 00:25:06,583
Let them go!

345
00:25:07,667 --> 00:25:08,792
Let them go!

346
00:25:08,875 --> 00:25:10,667
It was Eid al-Fitr, the small Eid.

347
00:25:10,750 --> 00:25:12,583
I pray with the Afghan community.

348
00:25:12,708 --> 00:25:16,375
So I was at Scotstoun
before the 8 o'clock prayer.

349
00:25:16,583 --> 00:25:20,000
My nephew, who's quite young,
he sent me a small video.

350
00:25:20,125 --> 00:25:21,833
And then I left immediately.

351
00:25:21,958 --> 00:25:23,000
I knew what it was.

352
00:25:23,250 --> 00:25:24,833
So I arrived there and parked

353
00:25:24,875 --> 00:25:26,875
near my sister's house and then walked.

354
00:25:27,167 --> 00:25:29,000
More vans have parked up, Ruby.

355
00:25:29,458 --> 00:25:31,292
There's a lot, there's a lot of them.

356
00:25:31,333 --> 00:25:34,417
Yeah, yeah.
It just seems very unnecessary.

357
00:25:35,250 --> 00:25:37,292
Like two guys
that they could just let out.

358
00:25:37,417 --> 00:25:38,500
Yeah, exactly.

359
00:25:39,417 --> 00:25:41,333
Does it really mean that much to them?

360
00:25:41,458 --> 00:25:43,083
They've got the whole community out now.

361
00:25:43,125 --> 00:25:45,042
They're coming into this community on Eid.

362
00:25:45,083 --> 00:25:47,208
No one should be dragged out their house.

363
00:25:47,917 --> 00:25:49,917
It has a really...

364
00:25:51,542 --> 00:25:54,333
It resonates all those things
that you've heard in the past,

365
00:25:54,375 --> 00:25:56,417
of the way people
have committed atrocities

366
00:25:56,458 --> 00:25:58,958
and the way countries have dealt
with foreigners.

367
00:25:59,208 --> 00:26:00,875
I thought the Home Office said

368
00:26:00,917 --> 00:26:03,000
that they were not
carrying out dawn raids anymore.

369
00:26:03,250 --> 00:26:05,042
And this was very visible on the date

370
00:26:05,083 --> 00:26:08,083
where many people are going around
meeting friends and family.

371
00:26:08,458 --> 00:26:09,667
Yeah, look.

372
00:26:10,292 --> 00:26:12,000
Cordoned completely off.

373
00:26:17,042 --> 00:26:18,583
Salam alaikum, Asif.

374
00:26:18,958 --> 00:26:19,875
How are you?

375
00:26:20,667 --> 00:26:21,750
I was at the prayer.

376
00:26:21,792 --> 00:26:23,708
-Yeah, I've been here for a while.
-What's happening here?

377
00:26:23,792 --> 00:26:26,708
Two men, they've got two men
in the immigration van.

378
00:26:26,792 --> 00:26:28,167
And they won't let them go.

379
00:26:29,625 --> 00:26:32,625
I have a good list of journalists
on my phone.

380
00:26:32,667 --> 00:26:35,792
I started texting my friends and others.

381
00:26:35,833 --> 00:26:39,333
In total, like, Messenger messages,
WhatsApp, normal messages,

382
00:26:39,375 --> 00:26:42,042
I sent, like, maybe 600 messages.

383
00:26:46,958 --> 00:26:49,875
I sent a Twitter message to Nicola.

384
00:26:50,208 --> 00:26:52,958
Then I texted Anas Sarwar,
the Labour Party leader.

385
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,958
And I said, this is happening
in your area, in Nicola's area.

386
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,750
Whatever you want to say, you must say.

387
00:26:59,125 --> 00:27:00,375
Let them go!

388
00:27:00,458 --> 00:27:01,708
These are our neighbours!

389
00:27:01,750 --> 00:27:03,083
Let them go!

390
00:27:03,125 --> 00:27:04,125
These are our neighbours!

391
00:27:04,208 --> 00:27:05,375
Let them go!

392
00:27:05,417 --> 00:27:09,375
You only find out about a dawn raid taking
place if people say it

393
00:27:09,417 --> 00:27:12,500
to campaigners or if somebody
in the community spots it.

394
00:27:12,750 --> 00:27:15,875
It's very difficult to identify and say,
yeah, a dawn raid took place.

395
00:27:16,708 --> 00:27:19,708
The moment I got a WhatsApp and realised
how close it was,

396
00:27:20,083 --> 00:27:23,667
sitting down, eating my muesli,
I was just, well, OK, that's my day then.

397
00:27:23,708 --> 00:27:26,667
And I figured out that then
what I would do,

398
00:27:26,750 --> 00:27:28,625
to be honest, I figured it would work.

399
00:27:30,917 --> 00:27:33,375
I just assumed
I was going to spend the night in a cell.

400
00:27:33,708 --> 00:27:35,083
Let them go!

401
00:27:35,292 --> 00:27:36,333
They're our neighbours!

402
00:27:36,375 --> 00:27:37,375
Let them go!

403
00:27:37,417 --> 00:27:38,958
They're our neighbours!

404
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:40,125
Let them go!

405
00:27:41,875 --> 00:27:45,292
Nurse: I overheard them saying things were
OK because there was a nurse,

406
00:27:45,375 --> 00:27:47,042
yet they wouldn't let me do my job.

407
00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:50,042
They didn't even check
I was an actual nurse.

408
00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:53,917
I didn't have any equipment,
I barely had access to him.

409
00:27:54,375 --> 00:27:55,833
That was enough for them.

410
00:27:56,500 --> 00:27:58,875
That's a leak under there,
that's worrying.

412
00:28:00,667 --> 00:28:02,500
Have we worked out what the leak is yet?

413
00:28:02,542 --> 00:28:03,708
Uh...no.

414
00:28:03,750 --> 00:28:08,208
We have a couple of ideas and this man
said, 'We'll send our sergeant round.'

415
00:28:08,250 --> 00:28:10,750
Our sergeant went round
and didn't look at it.

416
00:28:11,250 --> 00:28:14,458
All of the cops near the leak
have now backed away from it

417
00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:16,042
and we still don't know what it is.

418
00:28:16,125 --> 00:28:18,875
At one point,
there was something leaking from the van,

419
00:28:18,917 --> 00:28:20,625
running down this guy's head.

420
00:28:21,125 --> 00:28:23,500
There was something dripping on me
after a while.

421
00:28:23,542 --> 00:28:25,917
I was worried it was a fuel leak
or something.

422
00:28:25,958 --> 00:28:28,583
And they were refusing to check
what it was.

423
00:28:29,083 --> 00:28:30,750
Is this vehicle safe?

424
00:28:31,292 --> 00:28:32,292
What is it?

425
00:28:32,333 --> 00:28:36,125
They said they couldn't ask anyone because
they couldn't move from where they were.

426
00:28:36,458 --> 00:28:39,125
It took an hour and a half to find out

427
00:28:39,167 --> 00:28:42,333
that it was maybe, probably,
the air conditioning.

428
00:28:42,833 --> 00:28:44,708
Van Man: The good news was
it wasn't petrol.

429
00:28:44,792 --> 00:28:46,875
The bad news was it was everyone's sweat

430
00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:50,167
up there, dripping directly down
onto my back.

431
00:28:50,625 --> 00:28:54,083
If something happened,
things would escalate very quickly

432
00:28:54,125 --> 00:28:56,792
and it would have been hard
to help him in any way.

433
00:28:57,917 --> 00:29:00,708
He was practically invisible under there.

434
00:29:01,417 --> 00:29:05,167
Sometimes people panic or hyperventilate.

435
00:29:05,208 --> 00:29:06,917
Also, the van was always moving.

436
00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:09,167
Police officers going in and out.

437
00:29:10,042 --> 00:29:11,583
It wasn't a good place to be.

438
00:29:11,833 --> 00:29:14,250
There was half a dozen dudes
inside moving around

439
00:29:14,292 --> 00:29:17,000
and when they moved around inside the van,
I could feel the whole thing

440
00:29:17,833 --> 00:29:18,792
shift on me.

441
00:29:19,375 --> 00:29:20,292
It was intense.

442
00:29:21,542 --> 00:29:24,083
Because any time they stomped their feet
or pounded the walls,

443
00:29:24,125 --> 00:29:26,625
I could feel the vibrations.

444
00:29:31,292 --> 00:29:33,125
They were strangers,
but we spent...

445
00:29:34,167 --> 00:29:35,208
all that time

446
00:29:36,333 --> 00:29:37,542
cooped up together.

447
00:29:39,333 --> 00:29:41,375
I didn't know anything about them or...

448
00:29:41,833 --> 00:29:43,042
who they were.

449
00:29:53,125 --> 00:29:55,667
Everyone gets nervous at a time like that.

450
00:29:56,583 --> 00:29:58,792
At first, I didn't know what was going on.

451
00:29:59,750 --> 00:30:03,208
After a few minutes,
I realised why we weren't moving.

452
00:30:04,458 --> 00:30:05,500
There's a person underneath.

453
00:30:07,208 --> 00:30:11,292
When the police began to intervene, that's
when I knew: there's someone underneath.

454
00:30:12,208 --> 00:30:14,250
I'm a mechanic myself.

455
00:30:15,292 --> 00:30:17,375
Another one or two people
get into the van.

456
00:30:17,625 --> 00:30:19,708
Their weight goes onto him.

457
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,958
Even more weight on him!
There are six people in the van now.

458
00:30:25,417 --> 00:30:26,583
These are our neighbours!

459
00:30:26,625 --> 00:30:27,917
Let them go!

460
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,042
These are our neighbours!

461
00:30:29,083 --> 00:30:30,167
Let them go!

462
00:30:32,583 --> 00:30:34,125
Let them out!

463
00:30:34,792 --> 00:30:36,500
OK, can you ask him if...

464
00:30:36,750 --> 00:30:38,167
I'm not, no, I'm not...

465
00:30:39,375 --> 00:30:42,542
Lots of police officers don't know much
about the asylum and immigration system

466
00:30:42,583 --> 00:30:46,458
so if they're stonewalling you,
It's not necessarily because they're...

467
00:30:46,875 --> 00:30:48,208
trying to be difficult,

468
00:30:48,250 --> 00:30:49,792
it's quite often because they don't know.

469
00:30:49,875 --> 00:30:52,042
They have a right to legal representation.

470
00:30:52,125 --> 00:30:54,083
Their lawyer needs to know
that this is going on.

471
00:30:54,125 --> 00:30:56,458
I don't know if a solicitor's aware
of what's happening with them just now.

472
00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:57,750
OK?

473
00:30:57,833 --> 00:31:01,750
And if you, as a concerned member
of the public, wish to phone a lawyer,

474
00:31:02,250 --> 00:31:03,500
then I can't stop you from doing that.

475
00:31:03,583 --> 00:31:05,333
No, but I don't want to phone
a lawyer now,

476
00:31:05,375 --> 00:31:07,250
if they've already got a lawyer
and the lawyer's not aware,

477
00:31:07,292 --> 00:31:09,208
because that's just a waste
of everyone's time.

478
00:31:09,250 --> 00:31:11,500
No legal agent has made themselves
known to us.

479
00:31:11,542 --> 00:31:13,333
-Can you ask them?
-Crowd: Let them go!

480
00:31:13,375 --> 00:31:16,542
I could see that that was a possible way
out that wouldn't end in...

481
00:31:17,417 --> 00:31:19,708
the police really violently
clearing everyone.

482
00:31:20,042 --> 00:31:21,250
Let them go!

483
00:31:21,500 --> 00:31:25,333
No justice, no peace!
No racist police!

484
00:31:25,625 --> 00:31:29,417
No justice, no peace!
No racist police!

485
00:31:29,708 --> 00:31:32,833
No justice, no peace!
No racist police!

486
00:31:32,875 --> 00:31:35,458
We were walking down Kenmure Street
to my gran's, I was panicked.

487
00:31:35,500 --> 00:31:37,500
I was like, 'What's happening?
What's going on?'

488
00:31:39,667 --> 00:31:41,083
I recognised a few faces.

489
00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:43,458
So then, by the time I reached
my grandmother's house,

490
00:31:43,542 --> 00:31:48,167
I immediately jumped onto social media
and I found Tabassum's livestream.

491
00:31:49,250 --> 00:31:51,792
We're here on Facebook Live,
we've been here the whole time.

492
00:31:51,875 --> 00:31:55,083
Eid Mubarak, everyone,
this is how I'm spending my Eid.

493
00:31:55,458 --> 00:31:58,875
Crowd: Shame on you! Shame on you!

494
00:31:59,125 --> 00:32:00,542
It's not just South Asians.

495
00:32:00,708 --> 00:32:04,625
There's people there from all different
backgrounds and you're like, actually,

496
00:32:04,708 --> 00:32:08,375
there is love here,
even at this most stressful point.

497
00:32:08,917 --> 00:32:11,292
And the radical people around you,

498
00:32:11,333 --> 00:32:13,333
you didn't realise were your neighbours
this whole time.

499
00:32:13,375 --> 00:32:17,417
I had some paints from the middle of Lidl
that I'd bought a while ago

500
00:32:17,958 --> 00:32:19,333
and a couple of bits of hardboard

501
00:32:19,375 --> 00:32:22,500
that were the back of my sister's
Billy bookcase

502
00:32:22,583 --> 00:32:24,375
that I was supposed to get back to her.

503
00:32:24,458 --> 00:32:29,375
And I just spent half an hour rather
quickly painting on the kitchen floor.

504
00:32:29,833 --> 00:32:32,958
I stuck the banner out
and I'm slightly deaf

505
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,125
and I suddenly realised
there was this noise

506
00:32:35,250 --> 00:32:37,167
and it was actually the crowd's cheering.

507
00:32:37,750 --> 00:32:39,125
So I think I gave them a thumbs up.

508
00:32:58,458 --> 00:33:01,250
We thought a good idea
would be to open our mosque

509
00:33:01,292 --> 00:33:02,375
for toilets

510
00:33:02,792 --> 00:33:06,792
because the police and the protesters
would both need to use them.

511
00:33:07,667 --> 00:33:08,917
And that was interesting

512
00:33:09,458 --> 00:33:11,083
because you would see the police

513
00:33:11,542 --> 00:33:14,417
and the protesters both coming in
to use the bathroom,

514
00:33:14,458 --> 00:33:18,583
but then outside they're shouting and
screaming in their own line of defence,

515
00:33:18,625 --> 00:33:19,542
I presume.

516
00:33:24,083 --> 00:33:25,792
Police officer: You're not wearing any
face mask, are you?

517
00:33:25,833 --> 00:33:26,750
Get back.

518
00:33:27,042 --> 00:33:28,417
I've got my hands behind my back.

519
00:33:28,500 --> 00:33:31,333
You're putting your hands on me,
not the other way around.

520
00:33:31,833 --> 00:33:33,125
You're trying to assault me?

521
00:33:33,208 --> 00:33:35,375
-Police officer: No, we're not.
-Right, well don't come to me then.

522
00:33:35,417 --> 00:33:36,875
Police officer: OK,
so nobody's assaulted anybody.

523
00:33:36,917 --> 00:33:37,708
Everything's calm.

524
00:33:37,750 --> 00:33:39,208
Why don't you stay back
and leave it alone?

525
00:33:39,250 --> 00:33:40,250
Stay here.

526
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:44,958
Typical, typical.

527
00:33:45,875 --> 00:33:46,917
What did I say to the sergeant?

528
00:33:47,125 --> 00:33:48,833
If youse don't escalate it,
it won't get escalated

529
00:33:48,875 --> 00:33:50,125
and yet youse have escalated it.

530
00:33:51,250 --> 00:33:52,958
Police officer: I'm lawfully touching you.
-No, you're not.

531
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,167
No, you're not.

532
00:33:54,208 --> 00:33:56,083
No, no, no.
-He's not moved!

533
00:33:59,750 --> 00:34:01,458
He's not moved!
Now you've said it.

534
00:34:01,500 --> 00:34:02,833
This community hasn't given you...

535
00:34:02,917 --> 00:34:04,792
...do you know about policing by consent?

536
00:34:04,875 --> 00:34:06,792
This community hasn't given you consent.

537
00:34:06,833 --> 00:34:07,917
Please don't push me.

538
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:08,917
Don't push me.

539
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:10,000
Don't push me.

540
00:34:10,042 --> 00:34:11,042
You've approached me.

541
00:34:11,167 --> 00:34:12,208
You've approached me.

542
00:34:12,417 --> 00:34:13,417
I'm not happy with this.

543
00:34:13,458 --> 00:34:15,333
Just step back, he's doing nothing.

544
00:34:15,417 --> 00:34:16,417
Just look around.

545
00:34:17,042 --> 00:34:21,125
BBC cameras, Scotsman, STV, everywhere.

546
00:34:22,208 --> 00:34:23,708
Do your job.

547
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,458
Go and get the two kidnapped guys
out of the van.

548
00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:28,500
They've got no powers
to do what they're doing.

549
00:34:28,542 --> 00:34:29,458
Let them out.

550
00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:31,333
Do your job, and then we'll go home.

551
00:34:31,375 --> 00:34:32,625
Come on tae fuck, man.

552
00:34:33,208 --> 00:34:34,625
Abusing that uniform, man.

553
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,083
Bullies! Bullies!
That's what you are, bullies!

554
00:34:37,792 --> 00:34:38,958
Smile, mate.

555
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,375
Smile to all these cameras.

556
00:34:40,458 --> 00:34:41,875
Smile, mate, smile.

557
00:34:42,583 --> 00:34:47,167
I had to remind my son
to not get too close to the police.

558
00:34:47,208 --> 00:34:50,125
You're going to be trending in Glasgow.

559
00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:52,000
So I was a little concerned for him.

560
00:34:52,042 --> 00:34:55,667
I thought, OK, if your mum gets taken
away, that's OK

561
00:34:55,708 --> 00:34:57,583
but I don't want anyone to take you away.

562
00:34:57,625 --> 00:35:01,500
No justice, no peace!
No racist police!

563
00:35:01,792 --> 00:35:05,625
No justice, no peace!
No racist police!

564
00:35:06,792 --> 00:35:08,875
I read a tweet.

565
00:35:09,167 --> 00:35:11,458
I immediately was concerned.

566
00:35:12,750 --> 00:35:16,625
And I said to my boss,
I actually need to go.

567
00:35:16,792 --> 00:35:18,583
I'm going to take the half day off.

568
00:35:21,625 --> 00:35:24,792
And I was very fortunate
because I work for an MP.

569
00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:26,458
We put out tables.

570
00:35:26,542 --> 00:35:28,083
We thought, let's make a wee

571
00:35:28,125 --> 00:35:29,958
Eid celebration out of this.

572
00:35:30,042 --> 00:35:31,625
We said to some of the folk, just stay.

573
00:35:31,667 --> 00:35:32,667
You know, your cars are blocked.

574
00:35:32,708 --> 00:35:34,083
Have tea and biscuits with us.

575
00:35:34,167 --> 00:35:39,542
I'd stopped at the shop
to pick up some snacks because

576
00:35:39,583 --> 00:35:41,625
I thought, if this is going to go on
for a long time,

577
00:35:41,667 --> 00:35:43,292
probably people need some food.

578
00:35:43,375 --> 00:35:45,292
And when I got there,
one of the bus stops on the street

579
00:35:45,333 --> 00:35:47,708
was completely full of water and snacks.

580
00:35:47,792 --> 00:35:49,792
So everybody else had had the same idea.

581
00:35:49,833 --> 00:35:53,625
The bus stop was turned into, like, water
station and with snacks and everything.

582
00:35:54,333 --> 00:35:56,083
You know, samosas, pakoras...

583
00:35:56,167 --> 00:35:57,208
Refreshments.

584
00:35:57,292 --> 00:35:59,167
People were bringing out blankets, water.

585
00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:01,042
They were bringing things in.

586
00:36:01,083 --> 00:36:04,917
We went into our flats and took any
packets of biscuits and crisps.

587
00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:08,333
People constantly trying to get you
to take bags of crisps

588
00:36:08,375 --> 00:36:10,125
and biscuits and stuff like that.

589
00:36:10,167 --> 00:36:13,375
Shopkeepers arrived with, you know,
blocks of water.

590
00:36:13,458 --> 00:36:15,542
And then you would get the bin bag
to put the crisps in

591
00:36:15,583 --> 00:36:18,333
to make sure you're not leaving the place
in a state.

592
00:36:18,417 --> 00:36:22,167
The bus shelter became a kind of support
station, a tuck shop,

593
00:36:22,208 --> 00:36:23,792
a first-aid post.

594
00:36:24,458 --> 00:36:26,292
And that really struck me
because it was just such

595
00:36:26,333 --> 00:36:30,375
a kind of act of care
around the broader act of care.

596
00:36:30,417 --> 00:36:31,375
Got any water, mate?

597
00:36:31,417 --> 00:36:36,292
Somebody brought this great big cookie
that said 'Eid Mubarak' on it.

598
00:36:36,708 --> 00:36:40,875
And they obviously brought it to share and
it just sat on top of a car roof all day.

599
00:36:40,917 --> 00:36:43,667
I think people were too polite
to break into it.

600
00:36:44,042 --> 00:36:46,375
As we were growing,
we were growing in confidence.

601
00:36:46,583 --> 00:36:49,208
Like, everybody was getting jobs to do,

602
00:36:49,292 --> 00:36:51,875
looking after each other,
organising in the community.

603
00:36:51,917 --> 00:36:55,458
It does show you amazingly
how challenging the system

604
00:36:55,542 --> 00:36:57,125
gives people this confidence

605
00:36:57,167 --> 00:37:00,333
to take control of our lives
and start running things for ourselves.

606
00:37:00,417 --> 00:37:03,542
Let them go! Let them go! Let them go!

607
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,083
Five hours in, there was a point
where the police were asking

608
00:37:13,125 --> 00:37:16,333
someone who had parked their car
if they could remove it.

609
00:37:16,625 --> 00:37:18,042
And people shouting back,

610
00:37:18,125 --> 00:37:20,833
'Could the owner of this immigration van
please remove it?'

611
00:37:23,292 --> 00:37:27,125
When everyone else arrived,
the noise got even louder.

612
00:37:28,917 --> 00:37:32,125
We knew they were fighting for us.

613
00:37:33,375 --> 00:37:34,375
We heard it all.

614
00:37:36,875 --> 00:37:39,125
The lady Immigration Officer asked me:

615
00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:41,958
'Who are you?

616
00:37:42,625 --> 00:37:45,250
Who are you that all these people
have gathered here?

617
00:37:46,042 --> 00:37:47,708
In Pollokshields, who are you?'

618
00:37:48,750 --> 00:37:51,292
I'm nobody. I'm normal.

619
00:37:53,250 --> 00:37:57,583
Van Man: I overheard someone on
a megaphone addressing the cops, actually.

620
00:37:58,292 --> 00:38:01,000
I'm paraphrasing,
but the gist of if it was...

621
00:38:01,333 --> 00:38:04,917
I don't think you realise that we're here
for the long haul.

622
00:38:05,625 --> 00:38:06,792
It's Eid.

623
00:38:06,833 --> 00:38:08,458
We've just come from the mosque.

624
00:38:08,583 --> 00:38:11,167
We spent an entire last week preparing.

625
00:38:11,208 --> 00:38:13,208
We have all the logistics here.

626
00:38:13,750 --> 00:38:16,708
And you don't,
you may as well give up now.

627
00:38:18,042 --> 00:38:19,292
It was incredible.

628
00:38:19,375 --> 00:38:22,917
We would not have a mafia from London
who can take us

629
00:38:22,958 --> 00:38:25,917
from our houses and throw us in the van.

630
00:38:28,833 --> 00:38:32,917
You're trying to remove any negative
energy in the month of Ramadan.

631
00:38:32,958 --> 00:38:35,417
You're spiritually growing yourself.

632
00:38:35,500 --> 00:38:37,583
And I know mentally I had prepared myself,

633
00:38:37,625 --> 00:38:39,125
and I had a whole month of fasting.

634
00:38:39,208 --> 00:38:42,583
It's what it's all about, this battle
within yourself to be a better person.

635
00:38:42,625 --> 00:38:45,667
I could have easily lasted a whole night
and day there.

636
00:38:45,833 --> 00:38:47,500
We call it the personal jihad.

637
00:38:47,958 --> 00:38:52,208
Stand tall and nobody's moving
until those people are released.

638
00:38:58,917 --> 00:39:02,250
The fact that I'm a nurse
gives some level of protection to me

639
00:39:02,292 --> 00:39:04,542
that other people wouldn't experience.

640
00:39:05,583 --> 00:39:08,500
I'm sure there were lots of people there

641
00:39:08,542 --> 00:39:11,875
who were doctors and lawyers
and all sorts.

642
00:39:13,125 --> 00:39:16,500
Some teenagers around the van
were saying very similar things

643
00:39:16,542 --> 00:39:18,417
to the police that I was saying,

644
00:39:18,458 --> 00:39:21,333
but they were getting shouted at
and pushed back.

645
00:39:22,083 --> 00:39:23,625
I'm not un-arrestable.

646
00:39:23,667 --> 00:39:25,417
I could be arrested.

647
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:30,083
And that means I couldn't work as a nurse
pending an investigation.

648
00:39:32,167 --> 00:39:35,750
But it's a bit of a strange area,
to be honest.

649
00:39:36,542 --> 00:39:41,583
I have to sign a statement saying
I'm of good character as part of the job.

650
00:39:42,250 --> 00:39:48,958
Never to get arrested for something
presumes that anything you could do

651
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,667
or be arrested for is presumably
a bad thing.

652
00:39:54,333 --> 00:40:01,333
It's a very critical position to take
in the context of a protest.

653
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,500
These are my words,
but this isn't my face.

654
00:40:13,125 --> 00:40:14,875
When I realised that the car
was being moved,

655
00:40:14,917 --> 00:40:17,208
I was on my own at the other end
of the street.

656
00:40:17,708 --> 00:40:21,208
I could see a recovery truck,
so I just ran.

657
00:40:21,292 --> 00:40:23,292
Let them go! Let them go!

658
00:40:23,333 --> 00:40:26,208
If that car gets moved,
they might be able to move the van

659
00:40:26,250 --> 00:40:29,458
so I dived under there,
just feet first underneath the car.

660
00:40:33,250 --> 00:40:34,417
Dickhead!

661
00:40:38,208 --> 00:40:39,250
Get off him!

662
00:40:41,167 --> 00:40:42,333
Get off, please!

664
00:40:46,167 --> 00:40:47,208
Arrest him for what?

665
00:40:48,125 --> 00:40:50,125
Let her go!

667
00:41:14,208 --> 00:41:16,167
You do not need to do this!

669
00:41:41,458 --> 00:41:42,583
Let her go!

670
00:41:42,625 --> 00:41:43,875
Let her go!

671
00:41:43,917 --> 00:41:45,125
Let her go!

672
00:41:45,167 --> 00:41:46,417
Let her go!

673
00:41:46,458 --> 00:41:47,375
Let her go!

674
00:41:47,417 --> 00:41:48,625
It felt really lonely.

675
00:41:49,458 --> 00:41:52,250
Just a swarm of people with cameras
and camera phones.

676
00:41:53,042 --> 00:41:54,917
People shouting to let me go
and things like that.

677
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:56,708
De-escalate it and take it away!

678
00:41:56,750 --> 00:41:59,042
That doesn't mean you can just do
whatever you want.

679
00:41:59,083 --> 00:42:00,375
She's done fuck all!

680
00:42:00,417 --> 00:42:01,583
We're not going anywhere!

681
00:42:02,917 --> 00:42:04,375
There was one Glaswegian voice
in particular

682
00:42:04,417 --> 00:42:06,167
who really put himself in the way.

683
00:42:07,417 --> 00:42:08,750
I did really appreciate that.

684
00:42:10,125 --> 00:42:11,500
But at the same time,
there was just something

685
00:42:11,542 --> 00:42:13,583
really dystopian about the whole thing.

686
00:42:14,167 --> 00:42:16,375
You're pushing people against...

687
00:42:17,250 --> 00:42:19,833
Move, move! Get back!

689
00:42:23,042 --> 00:42:24,333
Just let her go!

690
00:42:25,667 --> 00:42:27,417
De-escalate the situation.

691
00:42:27,458 --> 00:42:28,958
Get back!

692
00:42:29,292 --> 00:42:30,500
Get your hands off me!

693
00:42:31,750 --> 00:42:34,208
They've already let this guy
go under the van.

694
00:42:34,250 --> 00:42:37,083
They couldn't stop him because he went
under the van before they arrived.

695
00:42:37,125 --> 00:42:39,833
Immigration had phoned the police,
the police had turned up.

696
00:42:39,875 --> 00:42:40,958
But they could stop her.

697
00:42:41,333 --> 00:42:42,917
And they stopped her with a lot of force.

698
00:42:42,958 --> 00:42:45,167
And it's a show of force
to show everybody else.

699
00:42:45,208 --> 00:42:48,042
It's not just about her and stopping her,
it's about showing the rest of us.

700
00:42:48,083 --> 00:42:51,625
'If you try anything like this that's not
just standing about chanting,

701
00:42:51,667 --> 00:42:53,375
we'll drag you through the courts.'

702
00:42:53,458 --> 00:42:55,458
Get back, get back!

703
00:43:13,458 --> 00:43:14,625
Get back!

704
00:43:17,167 --> 00:43:18,292
Get back!

705
00:43:18,333 --> 00:43:19,625
-Shut up.
-Get back!

706
00:43:26,042 --> 00:43:27,333
Look, excuse me.

707
00:43:27,417 --> 00:43:29,125
Can I speak to you honestly?

708
00:43:29,167 --> 00:43:34,708
This officer, excuse me, this officer,
he's the worst officer I have ever seen.

709
00:43:34,750 --> 00:43:35,875
The worst...

710
00:43:35,917 --> 00:43:38,667
You have no respect for women,
for children, for nobody.

711
00:43:38,708 --> 00:43:42,125
This guy is the worst man I've ever seen,
this guy.

712
00:43:42,167 --> 00:43:44,375
Listen, you're a police officer,
get your guy...

713
00:43:44,458 --> 00:43:46,208
This guy, send him home.

714
00:43:46,292 --> 00:43:49,083
Trust me, send him home, this guy.

715
00:43:49,125 --> 00:43:51,333
I don't want to speak to anyone.
That's it.

716
00:43:51,833 --> 00:43:54,167
I'm telling you, this guy, send him home.

717
00:43:54,292 --> 00:43:56,292
You know, he should be cutting potatoes.

718
00:43:56,375 --> 00:44:00,708
And then I got angry and I said, he's good
to sell potatoes or tomatoes.

719
00:44:00,750 --> 00:44:04,333
He's not good to be a police officer
in this tense situation.

720
00:44:23,500 --> 00:44:25,500
Get back, get back.

721
00:44:28,167 --> 00:44:30,375
Get back, get back.

722
00:44:39,333 --> 00:44:40,375
Move to side.

723
00:44:40,458 --> 00:44:42,417
Protestor: Don't fucking push me, wee man!

724
00:44:42,458 --> 00:44:44,458
Keep moving.

725
00:44:45,958 --> 00:44:48,333
Off the road, please,
off the road.

726
00:44:48,667 --> 00:44:51,833
Off the road, off the road!

727
00:44:52,625 --> 00:44:54,500
Guys, get off to the pavement!

728
00:44:54,542 --> 00:44:55,750
Off of the road!

729
00:44:56,250 --> 00:44:58,000
You can walk on the pavement.

730
00:44:58,042 --> 00:44:59,875
Get on the pavement.

731
00:45:01,583 --> 00:45:03,000
Get off the road.

732
00:45:03,042 --> 00:45:05,292
You can live here for 200 years,

733
00:45:06,208 --> 00:45:10,042
but in the eyes of the establishment,
you are not British.

734
00:45:10,625 --> 00:45:14,208
I mean, yes, the people are different from
the regimes.

735
00:45:14,667 --> 00:45:17,250
And I experience it every time
I travel abroad,

736
00:45:17,292 --> 00:45:19,583
I come in and get picked from the queue.

737
00:45:19,667 --> 00:45:23,417
I was asked in 2005
if I know where bin Laden was.

738
00:45:23,917 --> 00:45:25,500
I said, 'Are you serious?'
He said, 'Yes.'

739
00:45:25,542 --> 00:45:27,000
I said, 'Look, if I know
where bin Laden was,

740
00:45:27,042 --> 00:45:28,833
I wouldn't be coming to Glasgow today.'

741
00:45:28,875 --> 00:45:31,250
He said, 'Then where will you be?'
I said, 'Downing Street.

742
00:45:31,292 --> 00:45:33,083
I'll be telling Tony Blair,
there's bin Laden.

743
00:45:33,125 --> 00:45:35,167
The five million reward, give it to me.'

744
00:45:35,208 --> 00:45:37,292
They want this to become ugly.

745
00:45:37,333 --> 00:45:39,208
So we're not going to get ugly.

746
00:45:39,250 --> 00:45:41,625
We're going to continue
the peaceful protest,

747
00:45:41,708 --> 00:45:44,542
no matter if it takes one day,
two days, three days.

748
00:45:44,708 --> 00:45:46,667
If they have the time, we have the water.

749
00:45:50,250 --> 00:45:52,833
I think in that moment, she's off to jail.

750
00:45:52,917 --> 00:45:57,583
It's important to try and keep everybody
unified around a singular thing.

751
00:45:58,333 --> 00:46:00,500
Folks, listen up, listen up.

752
00:46:00,542 --> 00:46:03,000
The police are issuing orders.

753
00:46:03,042 --> 00:46:04,667
They're moving their vans.

754
00:46:04,708 --> 00:46:07,667
They are going to get prepared
to move this van.

755
00:46:07,792 --> 00:46:11,125
If they try,
everybody has to sit on the ground.

756
00:46:15,500 --> 00:46:17,292
I want to see a show of hands!

757
00:46:17,625 --> 00:46:19,500
Who's prepared to get arrested?!

758
00:46:20,208 --> 00:46:21,625
Who's prepared!?

760
00:46:24,917 --> 00:46:26,833
Do not allow them to move us.

761
00:46:26,917 --> 00:46:29,083
If we're standing, they can push us back.

762
00:46:29,125 --> 00:46:32,958
If we're sitting, they're going to have to
lift every single person,

763
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:34,583
and they cannot do that.

764
00:46:41,208 --> 00:46:43,458
It got to that point
where there was too many protesters

765
00:46:43,500 --> 00:46:46,333
for the police to lift them all,
to pick them all up.

766
00:46:46,750 --> 00:46:49,417
And there was no way that the protesters
were going to go home

767
00:46:49,500 --> 00:46:50,792
or going to go anywhere.

768
00:46:50,875 --> 00:46:52,667
I thought there's going to have
to be a clash.

769
00:46:52,708 --> 00:46:53,958
There's going to be a riot.

770
00:46:54,458 --> 00:46:57,958
Shame on you! Shame on you! Shame on you!

772
00:47:01,583 --> 00:47:04,875
A lot of people there were other mums
and dads from the school run.

773
00:47:04,958 --> 00:47:07,125
I think my instinct
is to act as a journalist.

774
00:47:07,167 --> 00:47:09,625
It's to record, it's to capture,
it's to document.

775
00:47:11,167 --> 00:47:14,542
But...these are my neighbours,
these are my friends...

776
00:47:16,958 --> 00:47:19,500
Let them go! Let them go!

777
00:47:19,583 --> 00:47:21,833
Let them go! Let them go!

778
00:47:21,917 --> 00:47:23,917
Let them go! Let them go!

779
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:29,167
I was meeting my children for a spot
of lunch and started getting text messages

780
00:47:29,208 --> 00:47:31,750
and I'm sitting trying to concentrate
because the kids are saying:

781
00:47:31,792 --> 00:47:33,083
'Dad, stop looking at your phone.'

782
00:47:33,125 --> 00:47:35,333
I'm trying to look at what's going on.

783
00:47:35,375 --> 00:47:38,708
I could see from the videos,
something in the region of 40 riot vans.

784
00:47:38,750 --> 00:47:40,750
When people were coming in,
they were saying,

785
00:47:40,792 --> 00:47:43,875
'Wow, the whole of the area
is surrounded by the police.'

786
00:47:43,917 --> 00:47:48,083
So if something was to kick off, I'm sure
it would have been an absolute riot.

787
00:47:48,167 --> 00:47:49,792
At one point, there was a helicopter.

788
00:47:50,083 --> 00:47:52,083
It was just,
why is there a helicopter here?

789
00:47:52,125 --> 00:47:53,208
What's going to happen?

790
00:47:54,208 --> 00:47:57,625
And I remember the liaison police officers
had told us,

791
00:47:57,667 --> 00:48:03,417
'We're going to change the police who are
outside the van because they're tired.

792
00:48:03,500 --> 00:48:05,792
Be peaceful, don't react.'

793
00:48:06,250 --> 00:48:10,208
And for me, that showed the police
being scared of ordinary people.

794
00:48:10,250 --> 00:48:13,292
Difficult situation for the police,
as well, because it's not like

795
00:48:13,333 --> 00:48:15,833
you're driving protesters out of the area
they'd marched,

796
00:48:15,875 --> 00:48:18,792
let's say, to the City Chambers,
or they marched to Trafalgar Square.

797
00:48:19,083 --> 00:48:20,167
This is their homes.

798
00:48:20,333 --> 00:48:21,500
These are their communities.

799
00:48:21,542 --> 00:48:23,917
Are they going to go door to door,
battering folk?

800
00:48:23,958 --> 00:48:25,542
Are they going to smash the windows in?

801
00:48:25,583 --> 00:48:28,833
If you've got young children,
you've got old people,

802
00:48:28,875 --> 00:48:31,833
they're just going to drive through
and people are going to get hurt.

803
00:48:31,875 --> 00:48:36,042
And that inflames the situation
because I know as a young lefty,

804
00:48:36,083 --> 00:48:39,167
one of the things I was told
was there's nothing more radicalising

805
00:48:39,208 --> 00:48:41,333
than being hit with a baton.

806
00:48:44,292 --> 00:48:47,417
It almost felt like as though it was
a trap that was set for everyone.

807
00:48:47,750 --> 00:48:51,458
A trap set for the Scottish government,
a trap set for the people of Glasgow,

808
00:48:51,500 --> 00:48:52,917
for the people of Pollokshields.

809
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:54,417
It's a trap set for Police Scotland.

810
00:49:03,750 --> 00:49:07,292
Kenmure Street,
like many other streets across Glasgow,

811
00:49:07,333 --> 00:49:10,250
carries the name of an individual
or a property

812
00:49:10,292 --> 00:49:13,500
that has connections to Britain's Atlantic
slavery economy.

813
00:49:13,708 --> 00:49:19,708
In this case, it refers to Sir William
Stirling-Maxwell, born in Kenmure House.

814
00:49:19,750 --> 00:49:22,292
Their family seat was in Pollok

815
00:49:22,333 --> 00:49:25,500
and they had long-term imperial
connections in India

816
00:49:25,542 --> 00:49:28,125
as well as estates in Jamaica.

817
00:49:28,500 --> 00:49:34,208
They built Kenmure House in Bishopbriggs
using the wealth from the plantations

818
00:49:34,250 --> 00:49:39,458
and on those plantations,
you'll find at least 400 enslaved people.

819
00:49:42,375 --> 00:49:44,792
There are two sources of revenue
for the construction

820
00:49:44,833 --> 00:49:48,625
of the great industrial cities
within Britain in the 19th century.

821
00:49:48,667 --> 00:49:51,167
One, of course,
is the exploitation of labour,

822
00:49:51,208 --> 00:49:53,667
indigenous labour, if you like,
within the factories.

823
00:49:53,708 --> 00:49:55,125
So particularly within Glasgow,

824
00:49:55,167 --> 00:49:57,125
you've got a lot of Highland labour
coming down,

825
00:49:57,167 --> 00:50:01,708
Gaelic speakers working in the early mills
and the mines and factories and so on.

826
00:50:01,750 --> 00:50:03,792
But the other half of the equation is,
of course,

827
00:50:03,833 --> 00:50:07,208
to do with the plantation economy
and the history of the slave trade.

828
00:50:08,042 --> 00:50:12,333
Glasgow has a long historical connection
with Atlantic slavery

829
00:50:12,375 --> 00:50:14,417
from the mid-17th century.

830
00:50:15,250 --> 00:50:18,042
We begin to see
the Atlantic slavery economy

831
00:50:18,083 --> 00:50:19,792
and the import of slave-grown produce,

832
00:50:19,833 --> 00:50:24,375
particularly sugar,
dramatically shift Glasgow's economy.

833
00:50:26,917 --> 00:50:29,875
Slave-grown commodities
are the driving forces

834
00:50:29,917 --> 00:50:32,375
behind the Scottish Industrial Revolution.

835
00:50:33,417 --> 00:50:37,792
Glasgow really becomes the epicentre
of Scotland's Atlantic commerce.

836
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:41,708
They had limited involvement
in the triangular trade,

837
00:50:41,750 --> 00:50:43,958
historically known as the slave trade,

838
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:48,917
and we think there is only 27 recorded
Scottish slave trade voyages.

839
00:50:49,417 --> 00:50:53,542
The majority of them would have left from
Port Glasgow and Greenock,

840
00:50:54,250 --> 00:50:58,417
but it's a tiny amount compared
to the major English slaving ports,

841
00:50:58,458 --> 00:51:01,375
Liverpool, Bristol and, of course, London.

842
00:51:02,667 --> 00:51:04,958
But where the Scots really monopolised

843
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:09,125
was the trade in slave-grown produce,
especially tobacco.

844
00:51:09,208 --> 00:51:15,292
In one year, 1758,
they import more tobacco to Clyde Ports

845
00:51:15,333 --> 00:51:17,625
than all the other English ports
put together.

846
00:51:18,333 --> 00:51:21,458
And Robin Blackburn,
the great economic historian of slavery,

847
00:51:21,500 --> 00:51:26,083
estimates that anything up to 50%
of the capital needed to finance

848
00:51:26,125 --> 00:51:31,292
urban construction in the 19th century
came directly from the plantation economy.

849
00:51:32,042 --> 00:51:33,375
The Stirling family themselves

850
00:51:33,417 --> 00:51:37,083
are Scotland's most prominent
Jamaica enslavers,

851
00:51:37,125 --> 00:51:40,958
and they own two plantations,
Hampden and Frontier.

852
00:51:41,542 --> 00:51:43,167
The Maxwell family had connections

853
00:51:43,208 --> 00:51:46,417
with St Kitts,
plantations and enslaved people.

854
00:51:46,792 --> 00:51:51,375
There is then a marriage,
and their estate in Scotland was vast.

855
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:57,417
It was sustained and maintained by profits
from India and then the Caribbean.

856
00:51:58,458 --> 00:52:03,125
After the abolition of slavery,
the last plantation is sold off in 1850.

857
00:52:03,500 --> 00:52:08,042
And the very next year,
the development of Pollokshields began.

858
00:52:09,708 --> 00:52:12,208
At the time, people who profited

859
00:52:12,250 --> 00:52:16,292
from the labour of enslaved people
were not ashamed.

860
00:52:16,708 --> 00:52:19,958
In the UK, it was abolished in 1833.

861
00:52:20,333 --> 00:52:23,792
And then in 1837,
you get the Compensation Act,

862
00:52:23,875 --> 00:52:28,750
where people who now have to free
their enslaved labourers

863
00:52:28,792 --> 00:52:31,375
are getting compensated
for the loss of income.

864
00:52:32,583 --> 00:52:37,042
The British government had to take out
a massive loan of twenty million pounds

865
00:52:37,083 --> 00:52:39,458
in order to pay off
all of this compensation.

866
00:52:40,083 --> 00:52:45,167
And as British taxpayers,
we have been repaying that loan

867
00:52:45,208 --> 00:52:49,000
through our taxes right up until 2015.

868
00:52:50,042 --> 00:52:57,042
In today's money,
we've paid off about £16.5 billion

869
00:52:57,542 --> 00:53:02,292
to compensate people
for the abolition of slavery.

870
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:30,042
Slavery is a practice of empire.

871
00:53:30,542 --> 00:53:33,667
This city benefited through violence,

872
00:53:33,708 --> 00:53:37,542
exploitation, particularly to people
who were racialised.

873
00:53:38,917 --> 00:53:42,625
Many of the systems that we see replicated
over and over again

874
00:53:42,667 --> 00:53:48,250
were developed to divide us through
wealth, race, gender and class.

875
00:53:49,917 --> 00:53:52,417
Enslavers made wealth very, very quickly.

876
00:53:52,750 --> 00:53:57,167
Being able to show that off is building
these magnificent buildings,

877
00:53:57,208 --> 00:53:58,833
making their money visible.

878
00:53:59,333 --> 00:54:02,917
The rage around that...
of course, people are angry.

879
00:54:03,083 --> 00:54:06,958
Pushed to the margins,
witnessing injustice,

880
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,250
turning that into something positive

881
00:54:09,292 --> 00:54:11,000
we can achieve through protest.

882
00:54:13,208 --> 00:54:15,375
Glasgow is a city of paradox.

883
00:54:15,583 --> 00:54:18,708
We like to think of ourselves as a city
that's anti-racist,

884
00:54:18,750 --> 00:54:21,250
that's radical,
that is willing to stand up

885
00:54:21,292 --> 00:54:23,042
and protest for people's rights.

886
00:54:23,250 --> 00:54:27,667
But on the other hand,
we're also a city that was built off

887
00:54:27,708 --> 00:54:31,417
the back of enslaved
and chatteled African people.

888
00:54:34,750 --> 00:54:37,583
My grandmother,
she was probably one of the few women

889
00:54:37,625 --> 00:54:42,458
who was in George Square in Glasgow
on strike in 1919 when the police rioted.

890
00:54:42,833 --> 00:54:46,375
And in running away she lost her shoes
and she used to tell us

891
00:54:46,417 --> 00:54:49,042
she was more worried about going home
to her mother in Ibrox

892
00:54:49,083 --> 00:54:52,917
to say she'd lost her shoes
than she was of the police.

893
00:54:53,917 --> 00:54:57,917
My grandmother was a suffragist
and anti-war.

894
00:54:58,250 --> 00:55:01,083
She was very disappointed
at the start of the war

895
00:55:01,125 --> 00:55:03,792
that the suffragettes as they were then

896
00:55:03,833 --> 00:55:07,042
had actually called off
the actions demanding the vote,

897
00:55:07,417 --> 00:55:11,250
part of a group of women
who probably invested too much in it

898
00:55:11,292 --> 00:55:14,125
because they actually thought
it would bring about change.

899
00:55:26,208 --> 00:55:30,708
There are those in society that try
to diminish

900
00:55:30,750 --> 00:55:34,292
our own ability and our own intelligence,

901
00:55:34,333 --> 00:55:38,667
who try and inculcate into us
almost from childhood

902
00:55:38,708 --> 00:55:42,667
that we're here to be ruled
and somebody else is here to rule us.

903
00:55:50,333 --> 00:55:54,083
Jimmy's speeches,
they gave the shipyards an identity

904
00:55:55,250 --> 00:55:57,875
and they were key to the success
of the whole thing.

905
00:56:10,208 --> 00:56:15,750
Nelson Mandela: It is a special privilege
to be a guest of this great city, Glasgow.

906
00:56:17,667 --> 00:56:21,583
It will always enjoy a distinguished place

907
00:56:22,750 --> 00:56:27,542
in the records of the international
campaign against apartheid.

908
00:56:28,167 --> 00:56:33,375
The people of Glasgow in 1981
were the first in the world

909
00:56:33,500 --> 00:56:37,167
to confer on me the freedom of the city.

910
00:56:37,750 --> 00:56:43,292
We respect, admire, and above all,
love you all.

911
00:56:43,333 --> 00:56:44,292
Thank you.

912
00:56:51,458 --> 00:56:53,792
Nelson Mandela Place
used to be St George's Place.

913
00:56:53,833 --> 00:56:55,917
They changed the name
of that particular street

914
00:56:55,958 --> 00:56:57,583
as opposed to any other street in Glasgow

915
00:56:57,625 --> 00:57:00,750
because it was the location
of the South African consulate

916
00:57:00,792 --> 00:57:04,417
and it meant that the consulate
had to receive mail

917
00:57:04,458 --> 00:57:07,333
with the name of their most notorious
political prisoner on it.

918
00:57:07,375 --> 00:57:14,208
The most important thing that has emerged
for all men and women of good will

919
00:57:14,250 --> 00:57:19,458
who regard that the whole world
is the theatre of their efforts,

920
00:57:20,125 --> 00:57:22,667
you are part of that generation.

921
00:57:25,375 --> 00:57:29,583
In a way, Kenmure Street brought like
a lot of memories back.

922
00:57:30,042 --> 00:57:34,375
You know, when we were young,
the same thing happened.

923
00:57:36,208 --> 00:57:38,083
-Hello.
-Hi, Agnesa.

924
00:57:38,125 --> 00:57:40,708
Can you tell me exactly what happened
on Sunday morning?

925
00:57:40,833 --> 00:57:42,417
They came inside the room,
I was sleeping.

926
00:57:42,458 --> 00:57:44,708
When I heard immigration, I screamed.

927
00:57:46,458 --> 00:57:47,625
Hello?

928
00:57:47,875 --> 00:57:51,542
One of our friends was detained
to be deported.

929
00:57:51,625 --> 00:57:56,000
We started a petition for Agnesa's family
and hundreds of people signed it.

930
00:57:56,167 --> 00:57:59,333
I'm afraid, they come to our door
in the middle of night

931
00:57:59,375 --> 00:58:01,792
and they take us away like Agnesa.

932
00:58:02,333 --> 00:58:06,292
That's where all the Scotland people
have seen us, so it's good.

933
00:58:07,083 --> 00:58:08,917
Agnesa was one of my best friends.

934
00:58:08,958 --> 00:58:12,542
I knew her for like about three years
and I was very upset about what happened.

935
00:58:13,083 --> 00:58:17,792
Seven girls saved their friend Agnesa

936
00:58:17,833 --> 00:58:21,750
and we managed to end child detention
in the UK.

937
00:58:27,375 --> 00:58:29,375
Ground!

938
00:58:29,875 --> 00:58:33,417
And it's been added
into the education curriculum.

939
00:58:34,375 --> 00:58:37,333
Children can learn
about the Glasgow Girls' Campaign

940
00:58:37,375 --> 00:58:40,708
and what it means to be a refugee
and asylum seeker.

941
00:58:42,542 --> 00:58:47,333
Half a mile away, the Govanhill Baths
was the longest sit-in protest

942
00:58:47,375 --> 00:58:48,792
in British history.

943
00:58:48,833 --> 00:58:53,042
The council were determined
they were closing our swimming pool,

944
00:58:53,292 --> 00:58:55,417
which was in the street
I lived in at the time.

945
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:58,833
And the community were equally determined
that they weren't.

946
00:58:58,917 --> 00:59:01,542
I was tiny
when they shut the Govanhill Baths.

947
00:59:01,583 --> 00:59:04,292
I was four and I lived on Calder Street.

948
00:59:04,333 --> 00:59:08,667
Eventually, a little group of people went
for a swim one Wednesday night

949
00:59:08,708 --> 00:59:11,833
and when they came out, they got dressed
and then chained themselves

950
00:59:11,875 --> 00:59:14,417
to various parts of the building
and refused to leave.

951
00:59:14,458 --> 00:59:20,417
We occupied it from that night in March
until the 7th of August.

952
00:59:20,458 --> 00:59:23,208
Perhaps now I would go,
'How could you possibly prevent

953
00:59:23,250 --> 00:59:25,750
the police entering a building
just by standing there?'

954
00:59:26,042 --> 00:59:28,125
But at the time,
we just felt anything was possible

955
00:59:28,167 --> 00:59:30,458
and within that campaign,
anything was possible.

956
00:59:30,750 --> 00:59:34,292
I saw people hold police back by just
drawing a chalk line on the ground

957
00:59:34,333 --> 00:59:35,917
and saying: 'There and no further.'

958
00:59:36,417 --> 00:59:37,875
And they didn't cross the chalk line

959
00:59:37,917 --> 00:59:39,750
and we were just thinking,
'That's bizarre.'

960
00:59:39,833 --> 00:59:45,333
It was vibrant, there was a clown
and a unicycle, juggling and music

961
00:59:46,667 --> 00:59:50,875
and then there was the absolute
attack on people by the police,

962
00:59:50,917 --> 00:59:52,917
the kettling,
getting charged by police horses,

963
00:59:52,958 --> 00:59:54,792
folk getting wrestled to the ground.

964
01:00:03,458 --> 01:00:08,375
But it was that sense of almost being like
a community under occupation, you know?

965
01:00:08,500 --> 01:00:11,333
Like, it was like,
'No, we fucking live here.'

966
01:00:11,375 --> 01:00:12,625
Do you know what I mean?

967
01:00:12,667 --> 01:00:16,083
I think with Govanhill and Pollokshields,
they're very distinct communities

968
01:00:16,500 --> 01:00:20,250
but they're also part of the one broader
community when it comes to resistance.

969
01:00:20,292 --> 01:00:22,250
And then of course,
because of all the Islamophobia,

970
01:00:22,292 --> 01:00:24,875
we had a lot of far-right activity
in the area as well.

971
01:00:24,917 --> 01:00:27,000
And lots of people
from the Baths campaign,

972
01:00:27,042 --> 01:00:30,750
occupying streets to prevent
the far-right marching towards us.

973
01:00:30,792 --> 01:00:33,417
At times, standing basically toe-to-toe
with them

974
01:00:33,458 --> 01:00:35,750
to prevent them entering Pollokshields.

975
01:00:37,500 --> 01:00:40,333
The day they came to remove us
from Govanhill Baths,

976
01:00:40,375 --> 01:00:42,958
they came with 300 police officers
and horses

977
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:44,958
and a helicopter and riot police.

978
01:00:45,375 --> 01:00:49,083
So of course,
that can make people fearful.

979
01:01:00,583 --> 01:01:05,333
Being a child of a migrant family...
I'm second generation Pakistani.

980
01:01:05,708 --> 01:01:10,500
These things resonate with me in a way
maybe it doesn't with other people

981
01:01:10,542 --> 01:01:13,958
because it's fragile, our space here.

982
01:01:14,208 --> 01:01:17,208
We've had these conversations
with our parents

983
01:01:17,250 --> 01:01:19,125
about our place in this country

984
01:01:19,542 --> 01:01:23,542
and there was always a little fear
in our parents' hearts

985
01:01:23,583 --> 01:01:27,792
that whatever's happening,
there'll be a time when we're not welcome.

986
01:01:28,250 --> 01:01:31,833
It was a shock to my system
that this happened outside my door.

987
01:01:32,500 --> 01:01:35,542
But as I spoke to some of my neighbours,
and people I've got to know

988
01:01:35,583 --> 01:01:38,583
in the community,
particularly who are of Pakistani origin,

989
01:01:38,625 --> 01:01:42,417
you realise that that is just
their life experience.

990
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:46,042
They have to deal with this throughout
their life.

991
01:01:53,917 --> 01:01:57,542
Beside the mosque on the side,
there's around 50 police officers

992
01:01:57,583 --> 01:02:04,208
just on standby, numerous vans
and really it was, I would say,

993
01:02:04,250 --> 01:02:07,000
an overreaction to the situation.

994
01:02:07,042 --> 01:02:09,167
And I lived through Pollokshields
through the 90s,

995
01:02:09,208 --> 01:02:11,875
there was a lot of race riots
and a lot of fighting.

996
01:02:12,708 --> 01:02:15,750
But this was the first time
I felt quite vulnerable

997
01:02:15,792 --> 01:02:18,083
just because my children were there
and my daughter,

998
01:02:18,125 --> 01:02:19,708
my younger daughter Zainab,
she was asking me:

999
01:02:19,750 --> 01:02:21,792
'Baba, why is there so much police
outside the mosque?'

1000
01:02:21,833 --> 01:02:23,375
'What is happening?'
And it's Eid,

1001
01:02:23,417 --> 01:02:25,292
and they've got the pretty dresses on

1002
01:02:25,333 --> 01:02:27,042
and they don't really know
what's happening.

1003
01:02:29,250 --> 01:02:31,250
Refugees are welcome here!

1004
01:02:32,958 --> 01:02:34,750
Refugees are welcome here!

1005
01:02:36,542 --> 01:02:38,375
Refugees are welcome here!

1006
01:02:56,625 --> 01:03:02,583
They had a line of police that linked arms
and just tried to charge.

1007
01:03:05,208 --> 01:03:06,417
Oh!

1008
01:04:50,375 --> 01:04:51,292
Stop!

1009
01:04:56,083 --> 01:04:59,000
Scum! Scum! Scum! Scum!

1013
01:05:32,125 --> 01:05:33,750
We're trying to get them out the of van.

1014
01:05:33,792 --> 01:05:35,583
We're all on the same boat here, mate.

1015
01:05:35,625 --> 01:05:37,125
If you want an ambulance through,
fair enough.

1016
01:05:37,167 --> 01:05:40,542
If youse come in shoving people when
there's a big crowd, that causes stuff.

1017
01:05:40,667 --> 01:05:43,208
If youse come up and speak to people
properly, it's fine.

1018
01:05:43,375 --> 01:05:46,792
But if youse come in heavy-handed,
people will stand their ground.

1019
01:05:46,833 --> 01:05:49,417
Protestor: Put the paramedic through.
We'll let him through, no bother, mate.

1020
01:05:49,667 --> 01:05:50,708
Seriously.

1021
01:05:50,750 --> 01:05:53,083
I will personally let the paramedic
through, send them through.

1022
01:05:53,125 --> 01:05:55,583
They then later claimed that this was them
trying to get the paramedic

1023
01:05:55,625 --> 01:05:57,583
to the guy under the van,

1024
01:05:57,625 --> 01:06:01,500
but of course we just let the paramedic
through because why would you not do that?

1025
01:06:06,292 --> 01:06:08,583
Hey there, buddy, you can film
but can you just stand back

1026
01:06:08,625 --> 01:06:10,625
while we're discussing
with the paramedics.

1027
01:06:10,667 --> 01:06:12,667
Alright, it's to do with
personal information.

1028
01:06:16,042 --> 01:06:18,125
You guys still not sent
the paramedic through?

1029
01:06:19,667 --> 01:06:23,542
Cops go home! Cops go home! Cops go home!

1030
01:06:30,875 --> 01:06:35,875
The police, they are doing their work
but you shouldn't be here.

1031
01:06:35,917 --> 01:06:39,625
I respect your daily job
but you shouldn't be here.

1032
01:06:39,667 --> 01:06:43,792
In 2005 I campaigned with my friends
to stop

1033
01:06:43,833 --> 01:06:47,000
the inhumane detention and dawn raids.

1034
01:06:47,042 --> 01:06:51,083
We see this again happening
in our great city, Glasgow.

1035
01:06:51,208 --> 01:06:56,417
Shame on the police being here
protecting the immigration and the UK.

1036
01:06:58,667 --> 01:06:59,917
Shame on you!

1037
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:02,000
Crowd: Shame on you!

1038
01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:09,417
I was watching. I saw the police
make a chain and charge the van.

1039
01:07:10,958 --> 01:07:12,583
I've spent half my life here.

1040
01:07:13,542 --> 01:07:15,500
This is where our family has been made.

1041
01:07:15,542 --> 01:07:18,833
I came here in my youth
and I've made my friends here.

1042
01:07:19,542 --> 01:07:23,167
I wanted to stay here,
that's why we were fighting the case.

1043
01:07:24,500 --> 01:07:26,750
I did have a lawyer,
my case was ongoing.

1044
01:07:39,042 --> 01:07:40,875
And then the phone calls start to come in.

1045
01:07:40,958 --> 01:07:43,583
One of the main individuals,
Mohammad Asif...

1046
01:07:43,625 --> 01:07:45,875
I said, 'You must come',
and he said he's with children

1047
01:07:45,917 --> 01:07:49,667
and I say, 'No, you must come, Aamer.
This is a very difficult day. You must...'

1048
01:07:50,042 --> 01:07:51,750
At that point, I thought I need to go.

1049
01:07:53,500 --> 01:07:57,500
I made several calls trying to find out
from people in the government

1050
01:07:57,542 --> 01:08:00,417
what they're saying - the Scottish
government - what the position is.

1051
01:08:00,458 --> 01:08:02,417
I've seen texts and tweets coming out

1052
01:08:02,458 --> 01:08:05,417
from the Scottish government
at the time which were supportive.

1053
01:08:06,167 --> 01:08:10,333
And I was told by a senior police officer
that it was a volatile situation

1054
01:08:11,417 --> 01:08:14,375
and they would welcome some intervention.

1055
01:08:14,958 --> 01:08:17,250
There was definitely
some sort of power dynamics.

1056
01:08:17,375 --> 01:08:18,875
It's interesting, of course,
because obviously,

1057
01:08:18,917 --> 01:08:21,000
Immigration is reserved to Westminster,

1058
01:08:21,042 --> 01:08:23,958
so the Home Office Immigration Enforcement
is Westminster

1059
01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:25,917
but Police Scotland is reserved.

1060
01:08:26,167 --> 01:08:28,333
This is wonderful, trust me.

1061
01:08:28,375 --> 01:08:31,792
You are an example for the rest
of the United Kingdom

1062
01:08:31,833 --> 01:08:33,583
or whatever kingdom you call it.

1063
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:41,125
I hope that Scotland parts company
with an imperialist state soon.

1064
01:08:46,333 --> 01:08:48,875
I parked some distance
because the roads are blocked up.

1065
01:08:48,958 --> 01:08:50,667
I went up to one of the junior officers

1066
01:08:50,708 --> 01:08:54,458
and I said, 'Look can you get ahold
of senior officers in command

1067
01:08:54,500 --> 01:08:56,958
and can you tell that I'm here,
I'd like to speak to them.'

1068
01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:00,083
I don't know these guys,
you don't know these guys.

1069
01:09:00,125 --> 01:09:05,250
We're here...anyway I'm going to cut my
speech, I have my very good friend here.

1070
01:09:05,292 --> 01:09:07,542
Police described him some years ago that,

1071
01:09:07,583 --> 01:09:11,583
"You are a black man with a big mouth
and your big mouth needs to be shut!"

1072
01:09:11,667 --> 01:09:15,625
So his mouth is getting wider and bigger
and he's here.

1073
01:09:16,375 --> 01:09:18,667
My very good friend Aamer Anwar.

1074
01:09:26,250 --> 01:09:29,792
Eid Mubarak to everybody in our community.

1075
01:09:31,250 --> 01:09:33,000
The first thing I want to say is this:

1076
01:09:33,625 --> 01:09:38,208
What that Immigration Enforcement van did,
the Home Office did,

1077
01:09:38,250 --> 01:09:43,625
by picking today of all days - one of the
holiest days in the Muslim calendar -

1078
01:09:43,667 --> 01:09:44,958
was deliberate.

1079
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:46,500
It was provocative

1080
01:09:46,542 --> 01:09:48,458
and it was intended to incite this.

1081
01:09:48,500 --> 01:09:53,292
What the hell did they think they were
doing by bringing an enforcement van

1082
01:09:53,333 --> 01:09:55,542
right into the heart of Pollokshields?

1083
01:10:04,667 --> 01:10:08,208
We should be proud of the fact
that these pictures

1084
01:10:08,250 --> 01:10:10,667
are going out right across this country.

1085
01:10:11,208 --> 01:10:13,167
That every single politician,

1086
01:10:13,208 --> 01:10:17,500
including Nicola Sturgeon,
and the Cabinet Secretary for Justice

1087
01:10:17,542 --> 01:10:19,417
have tried to pick up the phone

1088
01:10:19,458 --> 01:10:22,417
to the Home Secretary,
to the Home Office

1089
01:10:22,458 --> 01:10:26,875
For some reason, that Priti Patel
and her racist government

1090
01:10:26,917 --> 01:10:28,708
are not answering the telephone.

1091
01:10:30,458 --> 01:10:34,750
There is only one way
that this is going to end today

1092
01:10:34,792 --> 01:10:37,833
and it is simple and the message is clear

1093
01:10:37,875 --> 01:10:42,667
to Police Scotland, to the chief
constable, to the area commander

1094
01:10:43,042 --> 01:10:46,667
that people want this
to be resolved peacefully.

1095
01:10:46,708 --> 01:10:49,500
They want to go home to their families

1096
01:10:49,542 --> 01:10:52,708
but there's only one way
this is going to end:

1097
01:10:52,958 --> 01:10:58,250
that the two men in that van
must be released without condition!

1098
01:11:04,167 --> 01:11:07,458
In order that the Home Office learns...

1099
01:11:07,500 --> 01:11:11,292
In order to de-escalate...

1100
01:11:11,333 --> 01:11:15,750
Crowd: Let them go! Let them go!
Let them go!

1101
01:11:21,042 --> 01:11:25,458
If the Home Office wishes to de-escalate
the situation,

1102
01:11:25,500 --> 01:11:28,042
there is only one way they can do this:

1103
01:11:28,083 --> 01:11:31,042
Open the van doors. Let those men go.

1104
01:11:31,083 --> 01:11:33,958
So our community can go home
to our families!

1105
01:11:37,958 --> 01:11:41,917
And there is a simple message
to Police Scotland today:

1106
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:45,500
What exactly do you call
community policing?

1107
01:11:46,333 --> 01:11:49,833
What do you call policing by consent?

1108
01:11:50,250 --> 01:11:53,208
We take no pleasure in having to do this

1109
01:11:53,458 --> 01:11:58,417
but we will not let our neighbours
be dragged out of their houses

1110
01:11:58,458 --> 01:11:59,542
off their streets,

1111
01:11:59,583 --> 01:12:01,208
or any more dawn raids.

1112
01:12:01,333 --> 01:12:04,083
We have the Glasgow Girls
amongst our midst!

1113
01:12:04,417 --> 01:12:08,958
We showed the way forward to the people
of Scotland and to the United Kingdom

1114
01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:11,042
And we will do so again

1115
01:12:11,083 --> 01:12:14,917
as this racist government
ratchets it up trying to divide us.

1116
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:16,583
They will not divide us!

1117
01:12:16,625 --> 01:12:19,125
Black and white, unite and fight!

1118
01:12:29,375 --> 01:12:30,875
Thank you, Aamer!

1119
01:12:33,875 --> 01:12:34,792
Thank you, Aamer.

1120
01:12:34,833 --> 01:12:36,333
He's negotiating with the police

1121
01:12:36,375 --> 01:12:39,667
because he knows most of the high-ranking
officers in Scotland.

1122
01:12:40,708 --> 01:12:42,708
Aamer: I went into
the portable control room.

1123
01:12:43,042 --> 01:12:44,583
They'd already been informed
I was coming down

1124
01:12:44,625 --> 01:12:47,625
and I said the only way I see it,
you have two options.

1125
01:12:47,667 --> 01:12:50,000
I said, 'Well, Plan A is that you

1126
01:12:50,042 --> 01:12:52,125
obviously want this
to come off peacefully.

1127
01:12:52,167 --> 01:12:54,708
These two men,
release the men into my custody.'

1128
01:12:55,333 --> 01:12:57,000
So I presented that as an option.

1129
01:12:59,042 --> 01:13:02,625
I was told that's not possible
it's a Home Office... thing.

1130
01:13:02,667 --> 01:13:04,750
Then I said,
'Well you're Police Scotland.

1131
01:13:04,792 --> 01:13:08,000
You're not the Metropolitan Police.
You don't work for the Home Secretary.'

1132
01:13:08,167 --> 01:13:10,000
But I understood the mechanics of it.

1133
01:13:10,167 --> 01:13:12,583
The safety of the men's a priority,
the safety of the crowd,

1134
01:13:12,625 --> 01:13:13,917
the people of Pollokshields

1135
01:13:13,958 --> 01:13:15,125
but the community is filling up.

1136
01:13:15,167 --> 01:13:18,333
People will be coming back from colleges,
from school...

1137
01:13:18,375 --> 01:13:20,083
Those streets are going to be bursting.

1138
01:13:20,125 --> 01:13:22,875
You already got about a thousand,
to a thousand and a half people.

1139
01:13:22,917 --> 01:13:25,958
When we get to about 5 o'clock,
you're talking about 4,000-5,000 people,

1140
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:26,958
maybe more.

1141
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:28,292
You're not going to be able to stop them.

1142
01:13:28,333 --> 01:13:31,000
So Plan B was...
I think the words I used was,

1143
01:13:31,042 --> 01:13:34,583
'You have 140 officers.
You seem to have over 40 riot vans.

1144
01:13:34,625 --> 01:13:39,167
You got shields, you got batons, send them
in. Use your batons. Use your violence.

1145
01:13:39,208 --> 01:13:43,375
Smash up the crowd.
Get the the detainees out of there.

1146
01:13:43,417 --> 01:13:47,625
But you will be picking up the pieces
for the next 20, 30 years.'

1147
01:13:49,333 --> 01:13:51,167
We've not had a Bradford in Scotland.

1148
01:13:51,792 --> 01:13:53,792
We've not had the Toxteth riots,
which is where I grew up.

1149
01:13:53,833 --> 01:13:55,625
We've not had a Brixton.

1150
01:13:55,667 --> 01:13:59,333
But that's what you will trigger,
if you go in.

1151
01:13:59,375 --> 01:14:01,000
It'll be a disaster for Scotland

1152
01:14:01,042 --> 01:14:03,583
if that's the way you chose
to deal with this.

1153
01:14:08,333 --> 01:14:10,417
So, of course, the police then said to me:

1154
01:14:10,458 --> 01:14:12,292
'Okay we're going to need to speak
to people.'

1155
01:14:12,333 --> 01:14:13,583
I was aware of the fact

1156
01:14:13,625 --> 01:14:15,583
that the Home Office
wasn't communicating with them,

1157
01:14:15,625 --> 01:14:16,667
that people weren't picking up phones.

1158
01:14:16,708 --> 01:14:20,833
I knew from Humza Yousaf,
the Scottish Justice Minister,

1159
01:14:20,875 --> 01:14:23,208
that London weren't discussing anything
with anyone.

1160
01:14:27,625 --> 01:14:31,375
Van Man: The passage of time under there
was a little hazy.

1161
01:14:31,750 --> 01:14:33,417
Nurse: It'd been 8 hours.

1162
01:14:34,208 --> 01:14:38,375
Holding on to the axle gave me a thing
to focus on that was, like...

1163
01:14:38,417 --> 01:14:40,000
OK, this is my job.

1164
01:14:43,125 --> 01:14:47,000
We were not there to give up; to just go
for one hour, two hours and leave.

1165
01:14:47,083 --> 01:14:51,125
If it's going to take the whole night,
we are going to stay here the whole night.

1166
01:14:51,542 --> 01:14:55,250
The crowd had grown.
There was nearly 2,000 of us.

1167
01:14:56,125 --> 01:14:58,417
There was just a feeling
of strength and unity.

1168
01:14:58,500 --> 01:15:01,917
We've all decided, if we're all going to
get arrested, we're going to get arrested.

1169
01:15:01,958 --> 01:15:04,125
If we're all going to make a stand,
we're going to make a stand.

1170
01:15:04,167 --> 01:15:06,292
This is where we're going to be.

1171
01:15:16,375 --> 01:15:17,958
I said to my husband,

1172
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:19,750
'This is going to turn nasty

1173
01:15:19,792 --> 01:15:21,833
and I'm frightened for the people
down there',

1174
01:15:21,875 --> 01:15:24,583
including our daughter and our friends.

1175
01:15:24,625 --> 01:15:28,625
Let them go! Let them go!
Let them go! Let them go!

1176
01:15:28,833 --> 01:15:31,625
They have sent millions of pounds
worth of resources

1177
01:15:31,667 --> 01:15:33,333
in to stop us preventing this.

1178
01:15:34,583 --> 01:15:36,000
You can have quite a bleak outlook

1179
01:15:36,042 --> 01:15:40,667
and it can be difficult to appreciate
the importance of an act like that.

1180
01:15:40,917 --> 01:15:43,542
The way the UK government's decided
it wants to interact

1181
01:15:43,583 --> 01:15:45,583
with the rest of the world,
and the way that it wants to treat people

1182
01:15:45,625 --> 01:15:47,458
that weren't born here, it's been...

1183
01:15:47,542 --> 01:15:48,875
absolutely horrible.

1184
01:15:49,167 --> 01:15:53,542
Drawing a line like that,
I think, that has implications.

1185
01:15:53,583 --> 01:15:56,958
It changes their sense
of what they can get away with

1186
01:15:57,000 --> 01:16:00,792
and it changes our sense
of what we can achieve.

1187
01:16:00,833 --> 01:16:04,917
Let them go! Let them go!
Let them go! Let them go!

1188
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:06,833
Let them go! Let them go!

1189
01:16:06,917 --> 01:16:10,542
The privilege that I have is only
because I was born in this country

1190
01:16:10,583 --> 01:16:12,708
but even that could be stripped away now.

1191
01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:14,542
Things are changing fast.

1192
01:16:14,583 --> 01:16:18,333
Let them go! Let them go!
Let them go! Let them go!

1193
01:16:19,083 --> 01:16:21,542
I firmly took that space
and I held that space.

1194
01:16:21,583 --> 01:16:26,167
That moment in time, whatever was
happening, I was present, I was there,

1195
01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:28,083
and I wasn't going to budge.

1196
01:16:37,083 --> 01:16:38,417
I was nervous.

1197
01:16:38,958 --> 01:16:40,458
I didn't want to leave.

1198
01:16:40,750 --> 01:16:42,250
-People!
-People!

1199
01:16:42,292 --> 01:16:44,083
-People!
-People!

1200
01:16:44,125 --> 01:16:45,917
-Power!
-Power!

1201
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:48,125
-People!
-People!

1202
01:17:00,292 --> 01:17:02,792
Everything happened extremely quick.

1203
01:17:02,833 --> 01:17:05,917
Fatima from Govanhill Baths
gave me her phone,

1204
01:17:05,958 --> 01:17:07,458
and she said, 'Pinar, read this out!'

1205
01:17:07,500 --> 01:17:11,667
I have a message from Police Scotland.
Please listen!

1206
01:17:12,167 --> 01:17:17,875
...having taken the well-being of all
people involved in the detention...

1207
01:17:17,917 --> 01:17:23,667
and subsequent protest on Kenmure Street,
Pollokshields today.

1208
01:17:23,708 --> 01:17:27,417
Chief Mark Sutherland has,

1209
01:17:27,458 --> 01:17:32,292
following a suitable risk assessment,
taken the operational decision

1210
01:17:32,375 --> 01:17:33,833
to release the men!

1211
01:18:01,125 --> 01:18:03,167
They're letting them out!?

1212
01:18:09,208 --> 01:18:12,208
We should make a path for the detainees.

1213
01:18:12,250 --> 01:18:15,958
So they can go and walk
to their home in dignity.

1214
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:18,000
With their heads held high.

1215
01:18:18,250 --> 01:18:19,708
And most importantly,

1216
01:18:19,750 --> 01:18:25,000
this teaches the lesson to the rest
of the United Kingdom

1217
01:18:25,042 --> 01:18:27,750
that the people of Scotland
should not be messed with.

1218
01:18:32,500 --> 01:18:35,708
The people of Glasgow
should not be messed with.

1219
01:18:41,833 --> 01:18:44,750
Right, can I just say...
we've negotiated with the police.

1220
01:18:44,792 --> 01:18:46,208
Negotiations have come off.

1221
01:18:46,250 --> 01:18:50,792
We have an agreement, it is in writing,
these men will be released safely.

1222
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:54,917
They will not be arrested, there will be
no enforcement action against them,

1223
01:18:54,958 --> 01:18:57,125
and I have an agreement
that they will then...

1224
01:18:57,167 --> 01:19:02,083
The police will form a cordon around
the van with myself and the two men.

1225
01:19:02,208 --> 01:19:05,833
And then we will be walked to the mosque
where they will be released.

1226
01:19:06,167 --> 01:19:10,917
I would ask everyone to disperse
so that the vans, the horses,

1227
01:19:10,958 --> 01:19:14,333
the police officers
can disperse from this community.

1228
01:19:14,500 --> 01:19:20,125
Everyone in this community should be
extremely proud of what we have achieved.

1229
01:19:42,875 --> 01:19:45,208
One last message,
I am going to go to the van

1230
01:19:45,250 --> 01:19:47,042
when I get told to go to the van,

1231
01:19:47,083 --> 01:19:50,167
the police will need you to move back.

1232
01:19:50,208 --> 01:19:53,458
Right, move, I will need you to move back

1233
01:19:53,500 --> 01:19:56,333
in order that we can get the two men out.

1234
01:19:56,375 --> 01:19:58,625
And when they say move back,

1235
01:19:58,667 --> 01:20:01,083
I don't want anyone
to try and do any antics.

1236
01:20:01,125 --> 01:20:04,500
We won this today
but we have got big battles ahead,

1237
01:20:04,542 --> 01:20:09,833
and also don't forget we have
the demonstration for Palestine on Sunday.

1238
01:20:17,083 --> 01:20:21,042
No justice, no peace!
No justice, no peace!

1239
01:20:21,208 --> 01:20:24,542
No justice, no peace!
No justice, no peace!

1240
01:20:32,792 --> 01:20:36,167
Some of the words that Aamer used,
I remembered,

1241
01:20:36,208 --> 01:20:39,333
about conducting ourselves peacefully,

1242
01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:44,750
not being intimidated,
the world is watching us.

1243
01:20:45,833 --> 01:20:49,833
There will be no vandalism,
there will be no bevvying

1244
01:20:51,708 --> 01:20:53,958
because the world is watching us.

1245
01:20:54,958 --> 01:20:58,083
I thought, 'My goodness, Dad.'
Of course, he would have loved this.

1246
01:21:06,250 --> 01:21:07,375
First of all,

1247
01:21:07,417 --> 01:21:11,583
What I want to do
is to thank every single one of you.

1248
01:21:12,083 --> 01:21:14,958
You've done an incredible thing today.

1249
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:19,625
You've come out and stood up
against the hostile environment.

1250
01:21:20,083 --> 01:21:23,375
You have come out and stood up
against the Home Office.

1251
01:21:23,542 --> 01:21:28,125
I want to thank you from the bottom
of my heart for what you have done today.

1252
01:21:28,375 --> 01:21:31,417
We have done together an amazing thing.

1253
01:21:32,292 --> 01:21:33,250
Thank you.

1254
01:21:47,333 --> 01:21:52,750
I am so proud of all of you,
I am so proud of Glasgow, I could cry...

1255
01:21:52,792 --> 01:21:55,000
Thank you all so very much.

1256
01:22:12,208 --> 01:22:14,042
I thought, it's just a ruse.

1257
01:22:14,083 --> 01:22:16,583
There's no chance
that that's going to happen.

1258
01:22:25,875 --> 01:22:30,333
You know it just takes one thing to happen
for chaos to unfold.

1259
01:22:34,292 --> 01:22:35,583
There's a lot of mistrust there.

1260
01:22:42,333 --> 01:22:46,208
Surely to God, they won't blow up
and turn on the crowd.

1261
01:22:48,917 --> 01:22:51,667
Please make some space
so we can have some...

1262
01:22:51,875 --> 01:22:53,792
Go back, please, go back down.

1263
01:22:53,833 --> 01:22:55,500
Go back please, yeah.

1264
01:22:55,958 --> 01:22:59,083
Can we have some space...

1267
01:23:11,375 --> 01:23:15,958
What we've done in Glasgow today
is going to change the narrative

1268
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:19,250
and framing of asylum and immigration.

1269
01:23:19,292 --> 01:23:20,417
Thank you.

1270
01:24:22,333 --> 01:24:24,458
The family appreciates your support.

1271
01:24:24,500 --> 01:24:27,333
But this is the last few
very important moments.

1272
01:24:27,542 --> 01:24:32,542
When these two men are taken away,
everybody stay in their places, please.

1273
01:24:32,625 --> 01:24:34,500
Thank you for your support, thank you.

1274
01:24:35,167 --> 01:24:37,375
The female officer who was in charge,
she came to me:

1275
01:24:37,417 --> 01:24:39,125
'Mr Anwar, could you do us
one last favour?'

1276
01:24:39,917 --> 01:24:41,667
I was like, 'Yep, aye, what's that?'

1277
01:24:41,708 --> 01:24:44,500
She says, 'Van Man, the man underneath,
he's not moving.'

1278
01:24:45,500 --> 01:24:47,792
So I was like, right, OK, so,
I got on my knees.

1279
01:24:48,792 --> 01:24:53,292
A guy in a suit squats down underneath
the van and introduces himself.

1280
01:24:54,125 --> 01:24:58,625
'I'm not moving, I'm not moving...'
He says, 'I want guarantees, those men...'

1281
01:24:58,667 --> 01:25:00,375
I said: 'Look,
I'm giving you guarantees.'

1282
01:25:00,750 --> 01:25:04,875
'Those men will be released now
and they'll be free to go.

1283
01:25:05,958 --> 01:25:10,167
But they can't be released until you get
out from underneath the wheels of the van

1284
01:25:10,208 --> 01:25:11,875
because the van needs
to get out of our community.'

1285
01:25:11,917 --> 01:25:17,458
I was pretty sceptical about giving up
the only leverage that we had

1286
01:25:18,417 --> 01:25:20,500
on a good-faith basis but yeah...

1287
01:25:21,417 --> 01:25:23,500
this is Aamer, he's not a naive dude.

1288
01:25:23,542 --> 01:25:25,042
So I went, 'OK, sure, all right.'

1289
01:25:26,375 --> 01:25:27,333
And then he said,

1290
01:25:28,167 --> 01:25:30,042
'Do you want me to include
your release as part of that?'

1291
01:25:30,083 --> 01:25:31,375
And I remember

1292
01:25:31,417 --> 01:25:33,417
just laughing at the time

1293
01:25:35,000 --> 01:25:36,708
because I didn't realise
that was an option but...

1294
01:25:37,042 --> 01:25:37,958
sure!

1295
01:25:38,375 --> 01:25:41,375
So I had to get off my feet
and I go back to the police officer,

1296
01:25:42,792 --> 01:25:43,875
'That's fine, I'll get him to move

1297
01:25:43,917 --> 01:25:45,833
but could you just give me
one more guarantee?'

1298
01:25:46,833 --> 01:25:50,917
The notion of getting to walk
seemed ludicrous.

1299
01:25:51,375 --> 01:25:54,083
Let them go! Let them go!

1300
01:25:55,583 --> 01:25:58,375
Nurse: Eventually, Aamer said,
'Okay, you have to go now.'

1301
01:25:58,583 --> 01:26:01,417
I'm going to walk to the mosque,
but you have to move.

1302
01:26:02,333 --> 01:26:05,292
Nobody's going to get arrested,
go right now.

1303
01:26:06,708 --> 01:26:10,875
I was mostly worried about this throng
of cops surrounding the van

1304
01:26:11,083 --> 01:26:14,292
and I was worried about accidentally
tapping one of their boots with my elbow

1305
01:26:14,333 --> 01:26:16,458
and getting done for assault
on an officer.

1306
01:26:22,083 --> 01:26:24,250
I'd been hoping the guys
would get out first

1307
01:26:24,500 --> 01:26:27,542
partly because I wasn't entirely sure
I'd be able to crawl out

1308
01:26:28,125 --> 01:26:30,375
while I still had all that
extra weight on me.

1309
01:27:08,792 --> 01:27:11,792
I went straight through the crowds
and into the back streets.

1310
01:27:12,708 --> 01:27:17,583
Missed seeing them being released,
just put my hood up and left.

1311
01:27:29,625 --> 01:27:33,417
We felt it vibrate underneath,

1312
01:27:33,458 --> 01:27:37,708
we could feel him moving out.

1313
01:27:38,083 --> 01:27:42,042
We could feel it in the van.

1314
01:27:42,083 --> 01:27:44,958
People have surrounded the van,
they're moving it.

1315
01:27:51,292 --> 01:27:56,208
It felt to me as if everyone
was connected with the van.

1316
01:29:20,125 --> 01:29:21,875
The people united!

1317
01:29:21,917 --> 01:29:23,375
Shall never be defeated!

1318
01:30:07,500 --> 01:30:09,792
When I was released,
I stepped out,

1319
01:30:09,833 --> 01:30:11,750
I looked up to check everything's fine,

1320
01:30:11,792 --> 01:30:13,958
that my dad is watching what's going on.

1321
01:30:14,500 --> 01:30:17,750
I felt so happy that all these people

1322
01:30:17,792 --> 01:30:21,292
have come together for us.

1323
01:30:22,583 --> 01:30:26,333
The people here won't stand for injustice.

1324
01:30:28,208 --> 01:30:31,375
They stand for each other,
not just for me, but for each other.

1325
01:30:40,667 --> 01:30:42,458
Refugees are welcome here!

1326
01:30:44,542 --> 01:30:46,417
Refugees are welcome here!

1327
01:30:47,167 --> 01:30:50,250
When Aamer passed,
with the huge crowd behind him,

1328
01:30:50,292 --> 01:30:52,458
he looked up and I looked down at him.

1329
01:30:52,583 --> 01:30:55,208
And I recognised the woman,
it was Eileen Reid,

1330
01:30:55,250 --> 01:30:57,083
the daughter of the great Jimmy Reid.

1331
01:30:57,167 --> 01:31:01,625
There just was a moment
of complete recognition.

1332
01:31:01,750 --> 01:31:04,125
I remember tears started
rolling down my eyes because

1333
01:31:04,667 --> 01:31:05,792
I was thinking of Jimmy,

1334
01:31:06,208 --> 01:31:08,083
and I was thinking of Glasgow,

1335
01:31:08,125 --> 01:31:10,375
and I was thinking of all the years,
the three decades,

1336
01:31:10,417 --> 01:31:14,000
because you could see the faces I had seen
from previous marches,

1337
01:31:14,042 --> 01:31:16,042
previous campaigns that we fought,

1338
01:31:16,083 --> 01:31:19,958
who were young boys at the time, who were
now parents themselves or grandparents.

1339
01:31:20,042 --> 01:31:22,042
Thank you, thank you!

1340
01:31:24,667 --> 01:31:26,625
Start moving back, please!

1341
01:31:40,750 --> 01:31:43,583
It's about being part of a continuum,
you know.

1342
01:31:43,917 --> 01:31:46,167
I might not see what we want just now,

1343
01:31:46,208 --> 01:31:47,833
but my grandchildren might.

1344
01:31:53,208 --> 01:31:57,125
I feel very privileged, actually,
to be part of that day,

1345
01:31:57,167 --> 01:31:59,375
because I have a lot of friends
who grew up with me

1346
01:31:59,417 --> 01:32:01,333
in Pollokshields, but missed that day.

1347
01:32:01,417 --> 01:32:08,083
It changes your mental landscape,
having a moment like that,

1348
01:32:08,125 --> 01:32:10,458
that's shared with your whole community.

1349
01:32:18,583 --> 01:32:21,083
I think it was
sort of an alchemy, frankly,

1350
01:32:21,500 --> 01:32:23,250
and a damn bit of good luck.

1351
01:32:23,958 --> 01:32:28,500
Our Eid became more colourful.

1352
01:32:32,833 --> 01:32:36,042
We need to have a moment of celebration,
because it happened

1353
01:32:36,125 --> 01:32:37,542
this doesn't usually happen.

1355
01:32:45,375 --> 01:32:48,375
Craig, who stays up the road,
did a painting of the demonstration,

1356
01:32:48,417 --> 01:32:52,250
and I have that up in the kids' bedroom,
and quite often at bedtime,

1357
01:32:52,750 --> 01:32:54,667
they ask to have the story of the van,

1358
01:32:54,958 --> 01:32:58,125
and it kind of has this mythic place
in their childhood.

1359
01:32:58,208 --> 01:33:00,417
That's how we talk about it
with our kids now.

1360
01:33:00,792 --> 01:33:02,875
We tell the story of the baddies coming,

1361
01:33:02,917 --> 01:33:04,500
and then putting our neighbours
in the van,

1362
01:33:04,542 --> 01:33:06,708
and then everyone coming out
to look after each other

1363
01:33:07,042 --> 01:33:10,250
and then finally the neighbours being
freed and the baddies having to go home.

1364
01:33:17,750 --> 01:33:19,250
Everybody put a day in that day,

1365
01:33:20,292 --> 01:33:22,500
for something very special.

1367
01:33:28,125 --> 01:33:30,208
A day is nothing in your life.

1368
01:33:31,083 --> 01:33:34,208
Please listen to instructions,
please listen to instructions.

1370
01:33:38,583 --> 01:33:41,458
Half of my life I have been in Scotland.

1371
01:33:42,125 --> 01:33:43,667
Kenmure was one of the best days.

1372
01:33:44,042 --> 01:33:48,958
It's just like, you know,
Maradona scoring the winning goal.

1374
01:33:55,333 --> 01:33:57,333
I ended up getting a D in biology.

1375
01:33:58,042 --> 01:33:59,083
I never showed up.

1376
01:34:02,417 --> 01:34:03,542
I sleep like a baby.

1377
01:34:06,375 --> 01:34:09,833
Maybe that's a good tip for people
to sleep well.

1378
01:34:10,375 --> 01:34:13,417
Go on protests and campaign on things
that you believe in.

1379
01:34:18,292 --> 01:34:22,042
I've never experienced anything like it,
because people were watching

1380
01:34:22,083 --> 01:34:23,333
from all over the world,

1381
01:34:23,708 --> 01:34:26,583
and seeing the full force of the police.

1382
01:34:28,042 --> 01:34:32,958
For them to back down
was quite extraordinary.

1383
01:34:33,542 --> 01:34:35,708
Please make way,
please make way.

1384
01:34:37,250 --> 01:34:38,292
Please, thank you.

1385
01:34:38,583 --> 01:34:43,542
Crowd: Bye, bye, bye!

1386
01:34:48,042 --> 01:34:49,625
Policies are being made, but...

1387
01:34:50,958 --> 01:34:52,833
what you're essentially doing
is you're telling people

1388
01:34:52,875 --> 01:34:54,125
that they're not worthy.

1389
01:34:54,500 --> 01:34:55,625
Who gets to decide that?