Video footage has emerged showing mounted police charging a crowd of protesters during this week's tuition fees demonstrations, the day after the Metropolitan police said tactics "did not involve charging the crowd".
Tens of thousands of school and college pupils and university students demonstrated in largely peaceful protests across the country against government plans to increase tuition fees and scrap the education maintenance allowance, but there were violent scenes at the central London protests.
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Hundreds of protesters were corralled or "kettled" by police, and later advanced upon by mounted officers. Many who were in the crowd complained of being charged by police on horseback.
Police have denied that mounted officers charged at protesters; however, a five-minute video posted on YouTube shows a number of officers on horseback advancing at speed through a crowd of people.
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if you are going to attack unarmed people in a peaceful demonstration, make sure no one actually films it for the world to see, you morons. classic fail by a heavy handed oppressive government. lol
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