Thatmax on 18 March 2009
Hasn't random stop n searches been legal in the UK for years? I think it is fair enough to search people, but it obviously got way out of hand. The police managed to turn a bunch of peaceful campers into angry people.
Bloody Sunday comes to mind.
I feel that this is definitely a mistake from the higher ups, while its easy to blame the officers they are presumably following orders to push them back and if they refuse to move back then they should use action etc.
