{"id":220777,"date":"2020-11-22T08:08:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T08:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=220777"},"modified":"2020-11-25T07:36:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T07:36:40","slug":"anti-lockdown-protesters-clash-with-police-across-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=220777","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Lockdown Protesters Clash with Police Across the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>At least 22 are arrested after anti-lockdown protesters chanting &#8216;freedom&#8217; clash with police as hundreds march against Covid restrictions through streets of Bournemouth, Liverpool, Basildon and Hyde Park<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>More than a dozen demonstrators arrested during protests in Liverpool today while four detained in London<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rallies were also held in Bournemouth and Basildon, with protesters seen clashing with police in the street<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The UK today recorded 391 new hospital coronavirus deaths in the highest Saturday increase since May 2<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Faith Ridler and Tom Pyman \u2013 Mail Online Nov 21, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>At least 22 people have today been arrested after anti-lockdown protesters clashed with police when hundreds took to the streets in an ongoing fight against coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Rallies were held in Bournemouth, London and Liverpool, where a growing crowd chanted &#8216;freedom&#8217; as they marched through the city centre in the rain this afternoon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_220779\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Cops-spray-anti-lockdown-protestor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220779\" class=\"wp-image-220779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Cops-spray-anti-lockdown-protestor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-220779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police pepper spray protestor. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The group in Merseyside were shepherded by police, who later moved in to make arrests, with some demonstrators seen being pepper sprayed as they grappled with officers on the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It is thought that the protest began at 1pm and started with around\u00a0100 people gathered on Church Street before the group grew significantly in size.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">At least 13 people were arrested during the demonstration in Liverpool, Merseyside Police confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Among those detained was a\u00a036-year-old man from Kirkby, who was arrested on suspicion of assault of an emergency worker after an officer was pushed to the chest on Church Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Rallies were also held in London, where the Metropolitan Police confirmed four were arrested for breach of Covid-19 regulations after gathering at\u00a0Speakers&#8217; Corner in Hyde Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Officers confirmed those detained remained in custody this afternoon while the &#8216;remainder of the crowd have been dispersed&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Michael Walsh, of the Central West Command Unit, said: &#8216;We take reports of breaches of Covid-19 restrictions seriously.\u00a0We are still in a pandemic and it is extremely selfish of a small minority of people to carry on without regard for the regulations.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">There were similar scenes on the south coast, with social distancing nowhere to be seen as activists marched through the seaside town of Bournemouth, holding placards reading &#8216;freedom&#8217; and &#8216;the pandemic is over&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Dorset Police confirmed two men were arrested\u00a0on suspicion of breaching Covid-19 regulations amid the demonstration. Officers added the crowd of around 100 people was dispersed at The Square at 2.45pm, two hours after the rally began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It comes as\u00a0Britain today recorded 391 new hospital deaths in the highest Saturday increase since May &#8211; up 21 since last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8973071\/Anti-lockdown-protesters-chanting-freedom-clash-police.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 22 are arrested after anti-lockdown protesters chanting &#8216;freedom&#8217; clash with police as hundreds march against Covid restrictions through streets of Bournemouth, Liverpool, Basildon and Hyde Park More than a dozen demonstrators arrested during protests in Liverpool today while four detained in London Rallies were also held in Bournemouth and Basildon, with protesters seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220780,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220777\/revisions\/220780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}