result in 23 arrests. eight further arrests including possessing an offensive weapon, drugs, facial recognition deployment at locations led tattoo arrests, one suspect wanted for breaching the six year old friends prevention order, one going to steal. the sexual offences prevention order. for the people involved in that, if these arrests were lawful, if the behaviour from the police s perspective was absolutely correct, why apologise? i perspective was absolutely correct, why apologise? why apologise? i think what we haven t said why apologise? i think what we haven t said is, why apologise? i think what we haven t said is, an why apologise? i think what we haven t said is, an apology, i why apologise? i think what we i haven t said is, an apology, what i said was we regret that those that were detained and subsequently no further action was taken, we regret that they miss the opportunity to protest, a human thing to do. we don t want to get into the sort of
the one-off occasion we are talking about here today. about here today. you talked there about here today. you talked there about balance, about here today. you talked there about balance, getting about here today. you talked there about balance, getting the - about here today. you talked there about balance, getting the balance i about balance, getting the balance right. you will be aware that the european convention on human rights provides that protest can be limited in order to protect the rights of others but any restriction of that right is only lawful if it is both proportional and necessary under article ten and 11. so do you accept that when it comes to the balance, the scales are actually weighed in favour of protecting the right to protest rather than equally balanced? that was the conclusion of my committee when we looked at part three of the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, which was the cursor of the act. edit was the cursor of the act. of course. was the
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
dancing on, will you apologise, won t you? i believe the arrests were lawful but of course, once we conducted further investigation and inquiries, we find out more details of the engagements that have taken place and we pulled all the circumstances they together, its quite a human thing to do to do to say we regret they miss the opportunity to protest, but what was also very clear was many hundreds did not miss the opportunity and continued on that process, which is quite contrary to some of the reporting we ve seen that all protest was banned, which clearly was not the case. protest was banned, which clearly was not the case. overall it was an excellent day. was not the case. overall it was an excellent day, and was not the case. overall it was an excellent day, and the was not the case. overall it was an excellent day, and the police - was not the case. overall it was an excellent day, and the police did i was not the case. overall it was an excellent day, and the police did a
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