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Originally Posted by Derek
I'm hearing that quite a few of the protestors during the week are so hardcore and determined to smash the system that once contained and realising the Police weren't going to let them smash up anything resorted to calling mummy and asking for help 
More than a few parents turned up at the cordon demanding their son/daughter be allowed through so they could be taken home.
Not exactly the image you want to portray to your hardcore hooligan chums.  |
Ringing their parent(s) is, to my mind as a parent, an entirely sensible thing to do - especially given recent incidences such as Tomlinson. I know that if one of my children were exercising their legal right to protest and baton weilding police suddenly started getting a bit frisky or intimidating I'd be more than happy to hear from them to confirm that they were safe / ok. It's a natural instinct and not everybody attending these protests was hellbent on violence and damage (as can be evidenced by the photo in the Guardian of the young schoolgirls trying to protect the police van from further damage).
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Originally Posted by Derek
Also the Guardian, presumably crapping it at the impending loss of advertising revenue from it's jobs section thanks to cutbacks, are calling a couple of mounted officers going into the crowd at a walking pace a charge.  |
Derek, the video
here at 1:10 in shows the arrival of the mounted police at anything but a "walking pace".