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Bush demo police branded 'blood hungry' by protesters Neil Sears It began as a perfectly legal protest about the visit of the most hated president in American history. But within hours - as George Bush dined with Prime Minister Gordon Brown several hundred yards away in Downing Street - the demonstration degenerated into a vicious melee in which numerous officers and protesters were injured, and 25 were arrested. In the aftermath of yesterday's shameful scenes it was claimed that 'blood hungry' Metropolitan Police massively over-reacted to the protests to save face for Mr Brown, with a huge presence of officers all too ready to use their batons.
(Article continues below) The senior officer in charge of policing the event, meanwhile, controversially claimed that the protesters could have been 'used as cover for more sinister criminal activity'. The demonstrators wanted to express their opposition to President Bush opposite Downing Street - but in an unusual move were forbidden from doing so, and the whole of Whitehall was sealed off well before the demonstration late on Sunday. The Stop the War Coalition, which organised the demonstration, blamed the 2,500 police involved in the operation in total over the weekend for the fighting that broke out with the 2,500 protesters. As the Met began an investigation into the fracas, Stop the War spokesman Andrew Burgin said: 'This was the first time in the history of Britain that they've sealed off the centre of London in the way they did. 'We were not allowed to make a protest opposite Downing Street to save the face of the Prime Minister, because he didn't want protest to be heard when he arrived for dinner. 'It was very much a political decision taken under the directions of the security service of America. 'People were understandably annoyed at being smashed over the head in their own country at the request of a foreign security service.'
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