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The anti-police messages created by anarchist magazine Strike! have taken up advertising space at bus stops including one brazen poster outside New Scotland Yard over the weekend.

The poster read: "You’re 28 times more likely to be stopped and searched in London if you don’t have white skin, because we’re still really racist."

Another in Lewisham said: "We’ve pointlessly targeted cannabis users in Lewisham, while other people legally drink their drugs."

A third poster in North London said: "We caused the 2011 riots by shooting dead an unarmed civilian and then lying about it. And we got away with it."

Images of the posters with the Metropolitan Police logo and the words "totally racist" spread on social media with the hashtag #ACAB, an acronym standing for "All Coppers Are B******s".

A post on the Strike! magazine website said: "The Metropolitan Police Force spend ridiculous sums of our money trying to convince us – and themselves – that they’re not violent, racist and corrupt. In 2012 it was £12.6m and in 2013 it was £9.3 – in two weeks alone last year they wasted nearly half a million pounds of public money on pointless poster campaigns.

"It’s propaganda pure and simple: they want us to forget that they murdered Mark Duggan, an unarmed civilian, and caused the 2011 riots; they’d rather you didn’t talk about being 28 times more likely to be stopped and searched in London if you don’t have white skin; and if the heavily redacted Operation Tiberius report is anything to go by, they definitely don’t want you to know about the 42 corrupt senior Metropolitan Police officers caught literally letting criminals get away with murder."

But despite claiming credit for the creation of the posters, Strike! told i100.co.uk they did not put them up.

Clear Channel, who own the advertising space, have since removed the posters.