Police provoke trouble in Manchester at demonstration ?
Manchester - March against hate - 12/6/2017
We are not especially supportive of 'Tommy Robinson' and the EDL. But this video is a shocking indictment of the way the police act .
Greater Manchester Police have actually used this tactic for well over 40 years.
They deliberately put opposing factions together and then feign innocence.
For example, in 1979, they placed several hundred Anti Nazi League (ANAL) protestors right next to about 150 National Front supporters who were going into a Election meeting at Rochdale Town Hall in 1979 for that years General Election.
They placed no barriers or even Police officers in between. Then when it 'kicked off', they arrested a National Front member. They had scores of Police waiting inside the town hall ready for when the trouble broke out.
Later that evening hundreds of police were needed to control the disorder from a left wing mob.