Brighton police investigate March for England complaints
12:00pm Tuesday 24th April 2012 in News
Brighton police investigate March for England complaintsPolice are investigating complaints of heavy-handedness at Sunday’s March for England protest.
Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, is understood to have referred to Sussex Police her concerns about footage from the March For England counter-protest in Queen’s Road, Brighton.
A video posted on internet site YouTube showed a line of officers, and some on horseback, hitting unarmed protesters with batons to force them down the road.
But police have described the tactics as “professional and proportionate” and said officers were themselves facing violence.
Hecklers Anti-fascist counter-demonstrators lined the road on Sunday lunchtime to heckle the nationalist marchers, whom they accuse of far-right extremism.
The march, strung out along the road, was subjected to missiles including plates of food and drinks cans.
A ten-year-old girl taking part in the march was hit on the head but continued to take part.
The parade’s progress was repeatedly halted by demonstrators blocking the road.
Officers used batons and pepper-spray to clear them from its path.
Police eventually decided not to help the march pass the Clock Tower but to escort it into Church Street through Victoria Gardens. More clashes followed in North Laine
Former city councillor Jean Calder wrote to The Argus yesterday condemning the use of pepper spray on the counter-demonstrators.
She said: “Police are highly trained and well paid professionals.
“It is their job to uphold the law and deal with provocation without losing their temper.
“Other public servants, such as nurses and social workers have at times to deal with insults and physical abuse.
“Most do not resort to violence and neither should police.
“They should also be able to tell the difference between protesters who are law abiding and those who are not.”
Sussex Police confirmed it had received a complaint about the use of batons based on the YouTube clip, which has been circulated on social media website |Twitter.
Public safety Superintendent Steve Whitton said: “Our priority throughout the event was public safety and we acted to protect the march, the officers themselves and other members of the public.
“The brief and selective footage shows police officers acting in a professional and proportionate way when faced with hostile groups intent on stopping and attacking the march and the police officers.
“It has to be seen in the context of a complex four-hour operation in which police were regularly faced with aggressive and violent behaviour from a minority of the protesters, some of it even more violent than that shown in those brief clips.”
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9666296.Brighton_police_investigate_March_for_England_complaints/
you guys & gals are so awesome…i don’t have the words…
the police should be investigating and arresting them commie marxist university dwelling middle class scum who seriously injured a 10 year old child and 2 women and not to mention the pensioners who were shoved and pushed over when he hate filled commie cowards went rampaging through brighton pier looking for more children and women to throw bricks and bottles at…
Again we see clear examples of UAF thugs using Facist tactics to firstly, stop a peaceful legal march, and secondly cry victim when they are the ones acting illegally.
Throwing objects into a peaceful crowd, (whilst wearing mask’s) showed them up for what they really are. Anti- freedom and Anti English. The hatred of these people was on full display, if the Police had not done such a good job then the Facist UAF, which is backed by Diane Abbott, and Ken Livingstone, would have no doubt gone ahead and attacted members of the march, including small children.
They cannot deny they are prepared to smash bottles into small childrens faces, because they have. What is more shamful and disturbing is the backing for this type of criminal action from Caoline lucas MP, and Jean Calder an ex city councillor.
There is a saying,’you can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, But, you cannot fool all off the people all of the time’, (Abraham Lincoln).
The Facist UAF, have stopped fooling all of the people!!!
the UAF seem to have a fixation with child abuse,if theyre not out supporting paedos in court theyre physically attacking children.
UAF shame of britain.
bet their parents are well proud of them,
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MFE
Family March in Honour of England Day Of St George.. Love your Country The Flag of Which will live Under, sharing with fellow Citizen English or Not but also living under This Similar Flag, Rejoicing.. Positive and Constructive Faith in The Future..
And That Displeased Some.. ??!!
If there are so displeased haven’t they got anything else to do.. then disturbing the pleasure of other ? What messages are send to the children, That it is bad to be among the one who like where your are living? .. That you should hate and dislike where you live, be destructive and hopeless..
It been a time when youth shouted No Future, And It was because It was what they were feeling at the time, A Reality, not a : I wish For a No Future…
There is No Future in this England Nightmare ! But there is one in this England Dreaming !
And May Dreams comes True..
“Put St. George in my heart, keep me English,
Put St. George in my heart I pray,
With St. George in my heart,
It’s my English will to part,
Keep me English til my dying day.
I got English hands, I got English arms,
I got English fingers and,
I will fight, fight, fight for the red and white,
And I follow the Eng-er-land.
Eng-er-land!
Eng-er-land!
Eng-er-land!
Eng-er-land!
Eng-er-land!
Put St. George in my heart, keep me English,
Put St. George in my heart I pray,
With St. George in my heart,
It’s my English will to part,
Keep me English til my dying day.
From Cumberland to the Cornish sands,
From Kent to Northumberland,
I will fight, fight, fight for the red and white,
And I follow the Eng-er-land,
And I follow the Eng-er-land.
Eng-er-land!
Eng-er-land!
Eng-er-land!
Eng-er-land!
Eng-er-land!
From Cumberland to the Cornish sands,
From Kent to Northumberland,
I will fight, fight, fight for the red and white,
And I follow the Eng-er-land,
And I follow the Eng-er-land.
I got English hands, I got English arms,
I got English fingers and,
I will fight, fight, fight for the red and white,
And I follow the Eng-er-land,
And I follow the Eng-er-land ”