Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
Do you have a copy of the footage?

Police get things wrong, we all know that. But there were peaceful protests. That's a fact. The police didnt arrest everyone or prevent protests. They held a number of people they clearly suspected of planning violence or disruption.

As I said, anyone who thought the kind of Just Stop Oil tactics could carry on and be deployed whenever people wanted were clearly wrong to think that.

The police use "intelligence" for disorder crime and disorder prevention all the time. We didn't see any disorder on the weekend at all. Maybe they did their job well?
The mere fact the police are fallible as you admit demands that they behave with more restraint. If you don't believe this latest behaviour is intolerable then you are even more myopic than I thought you were.