Gargoyle, I wonder if you have actually looked at the video footage of what happened? You say "It was necessary and it prevented further incidents." I wonder how "necessary" you think it was to attack a woman holding her baby? What threat was she offering at the time?

As witnessed by the ITN reporter quoted above, and exposed in the ITN programme years later, the police clearly went in with intention to attack and intimidate. It was a politically motivated attack against people who dared to follow a lifestyle which the public and especially "middle England", as informed by the right-wing press, was encouraged to despise.