Given the history of Lichtenhagen you would have thought that the cops might keep a low profile?
Yeah right...
Cops attempt to kick things off...
...while more cops make a pointless arrest.
The demonstrator refuse to be provoked...
...and quickly organise against the repression.
Clown is attacked.
:(
Suddenly without warning a group riot cops attack some people standing on the edge of the crowd. This just happens to be the same unit that were starting most of the aggro on Saturday. Funny that? While this happens a snatch squad piles into the crowd to nick someone. Wanted for Saturday, or just an excuse to kick things off?
The discipline of the crowd is commendable. At the begining it was announced that due to the presence of refugees on the demo it is essential that there is no trouble no matter what the provocation. People link arms and chant 'Get lost' at the marauding cops until they stand down. More scuffles break out outside the demo, at one point I witness one of the clowns being half strangled. If the Police wanted to start a riot in order to get the main afternoon demo banned they failed dismally.
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