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I mean, worth pointing out this group is pretty explicitly focused on conducting unlawful civil disobedience, and plenty of the members have previous convictions for doing just that. This is hardly the police just rounding up your local reading group.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/met-police-arrest-act...

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So? Were they conducting "unlawful" civil disobedience when raided?

Planning one, hence the conspiracy charges. Seems pretty Orwellian to me though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle: not having evidence is not a justification for not taking action.

Are police only allowed to arrest a rapist when he is raping? Are they only allowed to arrest a murderer in the middle of a murder?

You're saying the prior arrests failed to be a deterent, so presumably these arrests won't work either.

Given that the goal of the group is to draw attention to their causes, and police action caused them to recieve a huge amount of attention, the whole thing seems rather self defeating.

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