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Sir Ken Jones, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, has robustly defended the policing of the G20 protests, insisting it was “proportionate”.
Sir Ken said that the public response to footage showing several officers making apparently unprovoked attacks, including against Ian Tomlinson, who later died of internal bleeding, had suffered from “a lack of perspective and a lack of objectivity”.
“We need to make sure we don’t condemn the many for the problems caused by a few,” Sir Ken said.
“We need to approach this a bit more coolly, a bit more calmly and look at this through the right end of the telescope.
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“These were part of a very, very big operation, involving hundreds – at time thousands – of people,” he told BBC Radio 4′s Today Programme.
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“I’m not making excuses – what I’m saying is that some people come to these protests now, particularly in Europe, to offer violence to people and to property, and yes they come to attack the police. This is becoming an increasingly difficult task to pull off.”
