With claims of violent mobs wreaking havoc, the public risks being misled about how events really unfolded in the city
Last Sunday, a peaceful demonstration in Bristol escalated sharply into clashes between protesters and riot police – leading to their vans being torched and the windows of the city’s main police station being shattered. The riot, following a demonstration against the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, was widely and quickly condemned.
Since then there have been two further demonstrations against the bill, on Tuesday and Friday. But these were very different events.
