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UK Police Seek 9 People After 14 Officers Injured When Enforcing COVID-19 Rules
The Metropolitan Police in London is asking the public for help in identifying nine people they would like to speak to after 14 officers were assaulted last weekend.
On April 24, officers approached a crowd of over 100 people in London’s Hyde Park, who were playing music and gathered closely together in breach of the UK government’s CCP (Chinese Communist Party) viruslockdown regulations. A woman is detained by police officers as protestors from the Million Mask March and anti lockdown protesters demonstrate, amid the CCP virus outbreak in London, on Nov. 5, 2020. (Henry Nicholls/Reuters)
Police have released images of nine people they would like to speak to after anti-lockdown protests in central London turned violent.
Scotland Yard said 14 officers were injured as they tried to disperse a crowd of more than 100 people in Hyde Park last Saturday.
The group was playing music and gathered closely together, and police asked them to leave the area because of coronavirus regulations.
Missiles were then thrown at the officers, the Metropolitan Police said, with the violence described by one as the worst I have seen in recent years .
Five of the 14 injured officers required medical treatment.
Missiles were then thrown at the officers, the Metropolitan Police said, with the violence described by one as the worst I have seen in recent years . Pictured, an injured officer
Police Federation chairman demands Priti Patel bring in tougher sentences for attacks on officers
PC Leo Clarke, 24, suffered life changing injuries after being attacked by a criminal in February
29 April 2021 • 4:51pm
PC Leo Clarke spent five days in hospital with a bleed on the brain after being attacked
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The chairman of the Police Federation has called on Priti Patel to bring in tougher sentences for attacks on officers.
John Apter, head of the Police Federation of England and Wales, made the comments after a criminal, who left a young officer with life-changing injuries, was given an unacceptable 20 month sentence.
Cops warn crime targets could see ludicrous decisions to arrest children for throwing cucumbers
Home Office responds after reports Home Secretary Priti Patel is drawing up plans
Targets were scrapped in 2007 after it led to ludicrous decisions such as arresting a child for throwing a cucumber slice. (Image: Michael Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
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