later, there were straps used to hold placards together which were interpreted as potentially being potentially used for devices for locking on. i m just trying to understand whether there would be a dialogue around that sort of granularity around whether a strap in the back of than might be considered as something that would be of concern to you or if it is just pointing towards legislation and saying you need to understand this yourselves. i and saying you need to understand this yourselves. this yourselves. i think our view, our start point this yourselves. i think our view, our start point was this yourselves. i think our view, our start point was always - this yourselves. i think our view, our start point was always to - this yourselves. i think our view, our start point was always to try | our start point was always to try and be as helpful as we could be. i don t know whether or not a discussion was had about any such straps in advance of the coronation. i ve seen various d
dignitaries, members of the royal family in a sort of security bubble around the abbey and moving them to and from the abbey. they kept safely hundreds of thousands of people who were lining the streets. the coronation itself went off almost completely without incident, and some protesters from groups like just stop oil were allegedly arrested with bottles of paint. so it does seem as if possibly some disruptive protests were prevented but overhanging it is this slightly difficult question of why it is that people who really turned up to wave and shout not my king would end up in a rather grimy police cell in a police cell in south london for 16 hours, essentially for having done nothing at all. i was there at the protest after the arrest and certainly some of the people watching the coronation were very
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using to hold the placards together and that the police had mentioned the phrase locking on. the context of that is just three days earlier, a bit of legislation had come into force making it an offence to go equipped for locking on. that legislation was designed to stop protests where people use things like bike locks and heavy chains to chain themselves to bits of equipment. bits of street furniture, and that legislation was obviously rushed through to prevent disruptive protests at the coronation but ended up protests at the coronation but ended up with members of the group republic spending 16 hours in custody for having what essentially was bits of seat strapping, which could easily be cut with a knife or anything that police officers carry in their vans for cutting people out of their cars after road accidents. eventually, those people were released that evening, after 16 hours in custody. they were then
told two days later that they wouldn t be charged. they got personal apologies by police officers attending their homes to apologise. the force has not exactly apologised, saying only that it regrets that they were unable to attend the demonstration and mark rowley has defended the actions of his officers, describing it as a unique event. so the big questions for this home affairs select committee are going to be around the new law, what guidance comes with that new law, whether the new law is drawn too broadly, whether the police were using it appropriately and also, can you have a unique event like a coronation where somehow the rules about protesting are different to any other events? because although the coronation was of course incredibly important for hundreds of thousands of people who turned out for the coronation, it was actually also very important for the anti monarchy protesters, who had a once in a generation opportunity to say at the moment of