G20 police 'used aggression first', Lib Dem MP tells conference
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/sep/23/g20-martin-horwood-lib-dem-conference
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The Liberal Democrats' conference today formally criticised the police over their "fundamentally wrong" tactics at demonstrations at the Kingsnorth power station and the G20 in London.
Martin Horwood, the Lib Dem MP for Cheltenham, told the conference he witnessed first-hand how officers at the event "used aggression first". Horwood, one of five Lib Dem parliamentarians who attended the London protests in April as observers, said he felt "less confident in the police" after what he witnessed at the demonstrations.
He was one of three MPs who give the conference eyewitness descriptions of what happened before Lib Dems voted unanimously for a motion saying the tactics being used by police to control demonstrations were "fundamentally wrong because of the threat to democratic rights, the distress and physical injuries caused and the damage to the reputation of the police".
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Martin Horwood, the Lib Dem MP for Cheltenham, told the conference he witnessed first-hand how officers at the event "used aggression first". Horwood, one of five Lib Dem parliamentarians who attended the London protests in April as observers, said he felt "less confident in the police" after what he witnessed at the demonstrations.
He was one of three MPs who give the conference eyewitness descriptions of what happened before Lib Dems voted unanimously for a motion saying the tactics being used by police to control demonstrations were "fundamentally wrong because of the threat to democratic rights, the distress and physical injuries caused and the damage to the reputation of the police".
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