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Originally Posted by Product 13
I believe Scotland Yard rejected applications from protest groups wanting to demonstrate in London yesterday.
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Can't say I blame them. I do agree that we have a right to protest.
However, yesterday, the Met Police were having to deal with potentially millions more people in London than they do normally, so their resources were probably stretched thin. If they had allowed any protest and it had "kicked off", a lot of people could have been injured (or killed).
Combine that with the fact that most of the world's news channels had at least one outside broadcast unit there, which would have attracted a lot of protest groups. That's without counting the nutters..