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Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, said today that he had "no record" of police officers on horseback charging at protesters.
A spokesman later added "Police horses were involved in the operation, but that did not involve charging the crowd. I dare say they were doing the movements the horses do to help control the crowd for everyone's benefit, which has been a recognised tactic for many, many year, but no, police officers charging the crowd – we would say 'no they did not charging the crowd." Apparently charging is a "quite specific term" according to this spokesman.
These 16 images, taken from the same spot with a high speed dSLR, proves them wrong.
The first image, taken at 18:09:24 shows a line of riot police that had been pushing a few hundred protesters back along Whitehall toward Trafalgar Square with a line of police horses in the distance. The riot officers suddenly withdrew to the sides.
The second image was shot at 18:10:10 (46 seconds later) and shows police horses travelling at speed through where hundreds of protesters had been standing seconds before. The next 14 images cover a period of 8 seconds. A number of people lost shoes in the general stampede away from the charging horses.
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