{"id":230382,"date":"2021-03-29T07:15:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T07:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=230382"},"modified":"2021-03-30T06:26:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T06:26:11","slug":"police-clash-with-anti-lockdown-protesters-trying-to-storm-vaccine-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=230382","title":{"rendered":"Police clash with anti-lockdown protesters trying to storm vaccine centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Above: hundreds took to the streets in Bradford to protest lockdowns<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rebecca Speare-Cole \u2013 Yahoo News March 28, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>At least 13 protesters were arrested after clashing with police as they tried to storm a coronavirus vaccine centre.<\/p>\n<p>A group of around 400 anti-lockdown demonstrators, anti-vaccination groups and anti-government protesters took to the streets of Bradford on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd gathered to march from City Hall and Bradford Magistrates\u2019 Court to Centenary Square.<\/p>\n<p>West Yorkshire Police said the majority of demonstrators were \u201cpeaceful\u201d but some \u201cattempted to cause disruption\u201d as they headed towards a vaccine clinic.<\/p>\n<p>The force added that many people who attended were not believed to have been from the Bradford area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhilst the majority of protesters were peaceful, some protesters attempted to cause disruption by making their way to a vaccination centre in the city,\u201d West Yorkshire Police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers intervened to stop this from happening. At no time were any vaccination centres or testing centres affected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nine police officers were injured during the clashes, the force said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said 13 people have now been arrested on suspicion of several offences including public order.<\/p>\n<p>Another 19 people were issued fixed penalty notices for breaching COVID-19 regulations and several dispersal orders were issued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The more we protest the weaker &#39;they&#39; are<\/p>\n<p>Bradford today. Massive solidarity<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CEwTWda7RB\">pic.twitter.com\/CEwTWda7RB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bradford?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bradford<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bristol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bristol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KillTheBill?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KillTheBill<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BristolProtest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BristolProtest<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/manchesterprotest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#manchesterprotest<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeAreBristol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WeAreBristol<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jerry Hicks (@JerryHicksUnite) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JerryHicksUnite\/status\/1375855698509193217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oz Khan, of West Yorkshire Police, said: \u201cWe are grateful to the communities of Bradford, who have attended the protest in a peaceful way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, there was a group of people who had travelled from outside the Bradford district to cause trouble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProtest policing is challenging and complex \u2013 and even more so during these unprecedented times and public safety is, and always will be the police\u2019s top priority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe majority of people were peaceful, and I am pleased to say there was no significant disorder,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018West Yorkshire Police is continuing to work hard to keep the public safe during the ongoing threat from Coronavirus.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It came as demonstrators descended on cities like Manchester, Brighton, Bath and Sheffield, for further<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/more-photos-of-people-connected-to-kill-the-bill-riot-released-as-bristol-police-plans-giant-investigation-154846059.html\"> Kill The Bill and anti-lockdown protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions have been high since <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/mps-pass-mi5-bill-license-to-kill-111330847.html\">MPs passed the controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill<\/a> earlier this month, which gives extra powers to police forces to clampdown on protests.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, 18 people were arrested after protesters blocked tram lines in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday night, violence erupted as a crowd of more than 1,000 people marched through Bristol city centre.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/police-clash-anti-lockdown-protesters-storm-vaccine-centre-092446059.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If they havem&#8217;t done so already, it&#8217;s only a matter of time before agents provocateurs infiltrate the protesters ranks and stir more violent protests <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":230384,"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-230382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230382","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=230382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230387,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230382\/revisions\/230387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/230384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}