Mounted Police charge protesters at Whitehall 24 November

Woodcraft Folk (I am a member) are following young people protesting around the country:
http://www.woodcraft.org.uk/young-people-protest-watch

I just want to say a huge thank you to everyone that's helped to spread this around, it really means a lot.

I wasn't planning on uploading this, I assumed the BBC would mention it along with their coverage of all the other protests, they didn't.

These protesters are not those who were kettled outside the treasury building, we weren't allowed in for that, after some kids had started fires and thrown some sticks n junk at the police lines separating us from the main protest they began to move forward.


This happened about an hour and a half after police started pushing us back, they had already deployed the cavalry 3 times, although those instances were less aggressive than this one.

I have decided to follow the anticuts campaign and make a documentary out of all the footage I gather, so this will eventually be in there.

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• police
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• charge
• riot
• protest
• whitehall
• 24
• november

[shiiuza]

The police here did their job and they did it well. I am all for protesting but you need to protest with RESPECT. This means not SWEARING at officers and not gathering huge numbers in unlawful areas. Plus, why is that woman crying? Cause she's pregnant? She needs to get a grip and grow a brain. Why would you go to a protest if you're pregnant? Do you know how many people even accidentally knock you over? Jesus people are DUMB

[MASSIF101]

@shiiuza so if you swear at officers, gather large numbers in unlawful areas, or are pregnant...you deserve this kind of thing?

people swear at officers all the time, rightly so, a lot of them are dickheads. parliament square is an unlawful area, despite being the center of our allegedly democratic system, protesting is all about moral or immoral, not lawful or unlawful.

why would you go to a protest if your pregnant?...well, why would you go to a protest that you're going to get shot at?

[MASSIF101]

because you care about the issue, you care enough to take a stand. if you don't get it you don't get it, and nothing I can say will change that.

[shiiuza]

@MASSIF101 I don't know them so I don't know if they "deserve" it but they certainly got what they had coming to them; as in, they were asking for it.

You make a good point of being shot at a protest. You COULD be shot at a protest- why go if you're pregnant? You could get shot, beaten, knocked down, etc, etc, etc. It's stupidity is what it is to go to a protest, a VERY large protest I might add, while pregnant.

[MASSIF101]

@shiiuza when I said, "you could get shot at a protest" I didn't mean it as, "so you shouldn't go", I meant it as people take that risk because they care, and if you've got half a brain there's plenty of things you can do to take of yourself on a protest, whether pregnant or not.

[hansberrylovesyoux3]

Won't listen to officers when they're on foot?

Well then, let's get a 2,000 pound animal on your ass. (:

[TheLaptop1990]

Democracy at its best LOL

[zechts]

I LOVE the mounted police! As soon as they charge all those trouble makers scurried away like rats! lol

[leknifmy]

Looking at the video it seems the police did not do their job in that 'they' created panic where a peaceful demonstration was taking place. This seems to be a clear abuse of their 'power' (or egos).

[TheEducatedtroll]

OHHHH LOOOK PEACEFULL PROTESTERS WEARING MASKS AND HOODS yeah man full came to peacefully protest 

[bgdancer100]

Don't fucking complain. At least the mounted police units don't have sabers anymore.

[TheHawkHarp]

Aaaaaaaaaaah hahahahahaha