Steel bar and masks. Bloke who opens the car door quickly gets back out of the way.The video in that report says it all about the racist rioters!
There is talk of 2 tier policing, generally right wing wailing. What do the police really do? Take a demo which of course the riot lot could also hold. They watch maybe escort and if some law is broken they arrest. Plenty of this went on with the pro Palestine demo's. Racist comments, dress or what ever. A law has been broken. They have tried kettling - what happened. Someone who shouldn't have been in had a heart attack. Sometimes a small group of extremist would start damaging property or what ever but as contained the police couldn't easily get there. Great approach to limit inconvenience of others in an area but the problems. So moves on to allowing marches. Planned routes. Why all of this - freedom of speech.
This sort of policing has problems with riots. Too many people to arrest in one go. Riot gear is generally more protect than attack. Go back say 40 years and things were rather different and they would attack. I tried to find some footage but failed. A single cop plus his truncheon would subdue the majority of individuals. Horse charges - use them. Bit of a problem. Someone was killed as his skull was too thin but cops not supposed to hit there. This really was little more than a demo. On lookers say this isn't "nice". It probably was used when not strictly needed. Switch to the US and they do sometimes advance with their rather large sticks that could easily kill some one.
So just how should they police riots?
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