The Metropolis

Video of police charging students at demo on horses

Darren Atwater | Friday 26 November, 2010 13:18

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Shot by student protestor ‘Massif101’, he writes this on the YouTube page

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

The horse charge begins at about 1min, 10 seconds.

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