London's top police officer has defended the department from complaints of a heavy-handed response to protesters during the coronation of King Charles III.
, saying his officers intervened to prevent “serious disruption and criminality.”
’’Had our officers not acted on the reasonable grounds based on the evidence in front of them in the moment and the potential risk to the event, there would now be much more serious questions to answer about the event,” Rowley wrote. “Serious and reliable intelligence told us that the risks were very real.”
Anti-monarchy groups, environmental campaigners and civil liberties organizations have accused the police, and Britain’s Conservative government, of stifling the right to protest by using recently enacted police powers to clamp down on peaceful but disruptive demonstrations on coronation day.
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